Eleven countries on Monday condemned North Korea’s latest ballistic missile test and urged the UN Security Council to respond, saying its inaction undermines the credibility of the United Nations’ most powerful body.
Eleven member states – Albania, Australia, Brazil, France, Ireland, Japan, New Zealand, Norway, South Korea, the United Kingdom and the United States – have stated their commitment to “pursue serious and lasting diplomacy” with the Republic. Democracy in Korea [nome oficial da Coreia do Norte].
The nations called on all 15 member states of the Security Council to “speak with one voice in condemning these dangerous and illegal acts.”
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield read out a statement signed by 11 countries after an informal emergency meeting of North Korea’s 11th missile launch on Saturday.
Experts say the launches are an attempt to add new weapons to North Korea’s arsenal and pressure the United States to make concessions.
Eleven countries have offered to negotiate, but without any preconditions, North Korea has decided to increase its military tests, in defiance of Security Council resolutions and international law, and “instead of embarking on a diplomatic path.” Increase “.
“We want China and Russia to be on our side in this group,” Linda Thomas-Greenfield said after being questioned about the Russian and Chinese vetoes.
After North Korea’s first nuclear test in 2006, the UN The Security Council has already imposed sanctions on North Korea and tightened its tests and the introduction of its increasingly sophisticated ballistic missile program.
The United Nations Security Council today held an informal emergency meeting behind closed doors in response to a US request to test North Korea’s missile test.
Ambassadors quoted by the France-Press Agency (AFP) said the session was convened by US and European member states with seats in the Security Council (United Kingdom, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway).
At this emergency meeting, in addition to exchanging information, Western nations hope to put pressure again on China, which is close to Pyongyang, to obtain a joint statement on the North Korean tests.
“It simply came to our notice then [sobre os testes] (…) The Council must show its consensus to North Korea, ”an ambassador told the French news agency anonymously.
Beijing has been refusing to comply with any joint Security Council action since 2017, and since the UN imposed three sets of international sanctions against Pyongyang.
North Korea announced on Sunday that it had conducted another “critical test” to build a spy satellite, but analysts believe it was launched just days before South Korea’s presidential election.
Unlike what happened on the ballistic missile that was allegedly launched on February 27, Sunday’s news did not include photos of the Earth’s surface taken from space.
North Korea has set a new record by conducting nine rounds of weapons tests since the beginning of this year.
Subject to international sanctions on nuclear and ballistic missiles, North Korea is not barred from launching satellites for peaceful purposes, even if the materials used to carry them use the same technology.
For the South Korean Armed Forces, Pyongyang fired a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan from near Sunan near the North Korean capital on Saturday, flying about 270 kilometers and reaching a maximum altitude of 560. Kilometers.
On January 31, North Korea confirmed the launch of an interim ballistic missile capable of striking the US territory of Guam.
In January, during a one-party ruling party conference in North Korea, President Kim Jong-un announced that the country would build new spy satellites.
North Korea announced in 2012 and 2016 that it had launched two spy satellites called Guangmyongsang 3-2 and 4 into orbit, but Western space agencies have so far not recorded any signals emitted by the alleged satellites.
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