North Korea denounces UN over spy-satellite launch, ‘gangster-like’ US demand

By Reuters: North Korea denounced on Sunday the UN Security Council for discussing its present satellite tv for pc television for computer launch in response to a “gangster-like US request”, and it vowed to reject sanctions and take movement to defend itself.

The US known as for a UNSC meeting last week to debate North Korea’s attempt to put its first spy satellite tv for pc television for computer in orbit, which resulted in failure with the booster and payload plunging into the ocean.

Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong Un and a powerful ruling celebration official, said that in accepting Washington’s “gangster-like request” and ignoring North Korea’s correct to space development, the Security Council was displaying it was a US “political appendage”.

“I am very unpleased that the UNSC so often calls to account the DPRK’s exercise of its rights as a sovereign state at the request of the US, and bitterly condemn and reject it as the most unfair and biased act of interfering in its internal affairs and violating its sovereignty,” Kim said in an announcement carried by the state KCNA info firm.

The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DRRK) is North Korea’s official title.

Referring to the satellite tv for pc television for computer launch, she said North Korea had a correct to defend itself in opposition to threats from the US and its allies, which it says are ramping up stress with navy exercise routines.

UN sanctions resolutions are a “product of hostile policy of the US and its vassal forces” and North Korea would not at all acknowledge them, she said, pledging to coach sovereign rights, along with launching spy satellites.

In one different dispatch, KCNA revealed a commentary it said was by worldwide affairs analyst Kim Myong Chol criticising a choice adopted by the International Maritime Organization’s (IMO) security committee that “strongly” condemned North Korea’s missile checks as a extreme threat to seafarers and worldwide transport.

The analyst accused the IMO of being “completely politicised” per hostile US-led protection.

Later on Sunday, South Korea’s Defence Minister Lee Jong-sup met his Japanese counterpart, Yasukazu Hamada, at a security conference in Singapore, and condemned the satellite tv for pc television for computer launch and agreed to boost security cooperation.