The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted a U.N. resolution and pledged once more to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite on Sunday. Meeting of the Security Council on the North's first, unsuccessful launch.
The powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un blasted a U.N. resolution and pledged once more to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite on Sunday. Meeting of the Security Council on the North's first, unsuccessful launch.
Last Wednesday's effort by the North to launch its first military surveillance satellite was unsuccessful since its rocket fell off the western coast of the Korean Peninsula. The United Nations holds an emergency meeting. Because the launch had breached council resolutions prohibiting the North from carrying out any launch utilizing ballistic technology, the Security Council was nonetheless called at the request of the United States, Japan, and other nations to consider it.
Kim Yo Jong, Kim's sister and a top member of the governing party, contacted the U.N. on Sunday. council, calling it "a political appendage" of the US and claiming that its most recent meeting was called in response to the US's "gangster-like request."
The UN, she charged. since it exclusively criticizes the North's satellite launches when hundreds of satellites launched by other nations are already in orbit, the council is accused of being "discriminatory and rude." She claimed that North Korea's quest to obtain a spy satellite is a necessary response to the military threats put forward by the US and its allies.
The North's spy satellite "will be correctly put on space orbit in the near future," Kim Yo Jong said in an earlier statement on Friday, although she did not specify when its second launch attempt would take place.
The intelligence service of South Korea informed legislators on Wednesday that it would probably take "more than several weeks" for North Korea to discover the reason for the unsuccessful launch, but if there were just minor issues, it would try again shortly.
Washington, Seoul, and other countries blasted the North for escalating international tensions with its satellite launch and urged it to resume negotiations.
In the midst of ongoing security concerns with the United States, Kim Jong Un has committed to obtain a number of cutting-edge weaponry systems, including a military surveillance satellite. In what he described as a warning on increased military exercises between the U.S. and South Korea, Kim has launched more than 100 missile launches since the year 2022 began.
According to experts, Kim would seek to utilize his arsenal of updated weapons to force Washington and its allies to make concessions in upcoming talks.
U.N. sanctions were repeatedly applied to North Korea. penalties because of its previous satellite launches, nuclear, and missile testing. Though the U.N. Due to China and Russia, both permanent members of the U.N., the Security Council was unable to impose more severe sanctions in response to North Korea's recent testing operations. council, thwarted the efforts of the United States and others to do so. At the most recent U.N. China, Russia, and the United States argued once more at Friday's council session about the North's unsuccessful launch.
North Korea sent Earth-observation satellites into orbit in 2012 and 2016, following a string of failures, but according to outside analysts, there is no proof that either satellite relayed pictures or other data.
In retaliation for the IMO's criticism of North Korea's missile testing, North Korea also threatened on Sunday to withhold early notice of any upcoming satellite launches.
A unusual resolution was passed by the IMO's marine safety committee on Wednesday criticizing North Korea for conducting launches without adequate notification that "seriously threatened the safety of seafarers and international shipping."
In a statement carried by state media, Kim Myong Chol, a North Korean international affairs analyst, said: "In the future, IMO should know and take measures by itself over the period of [North Korea's] satellite launch and the impact point of its carrier and be prepared to take full responsibility for all consequences from it."
North Korea informed the IMO and Japan that its most recent spy satellite launch will take place between May 31 and June 11.
