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In a defiant speech before the UN Security Council, North Korea insisted on its efforts to launch a Spy satellite into space. they are transparent and are within “their legitimate right as a sovereign state.”
Pyongyang’s ambassador to the UN, Kim Song, defended his country during a rare UN speech on Friday, denying that the country had been trying to acquire intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) technology through its satellite launch.
It had never “recognized UN Security Council resolutions that infringe on the rights of a sovereign state,” Kim said.
Pyongyang’s second attempt to put a spy satellite into orbit took place on Thursday, and failed due to a malfunction in the third stage of the rocket.
Is The first attempt failed in May. when the Chollima-1 satellite rocket vehicle crashed into the sea shortly after liftoff.
The rocket broke into several parts before falling into the Yellow Sea, the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, prompting neighboring Japan to issue an emergency evacuation call for residents of the southern region of Okinawa.
The US National Security Council condemned the launch as a “blatant violation” of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, saying it “involved technologies directly related to the DPRK’s ICBM programme.”
The South Korean military said the latest satellite’s design was too crude to function properly as a spy device, even if it had been launched successfully.
North Korea will attempt another launch in October, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.
Before Kim Song’s UN speech, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield urged members to “return to an era when we used our collective voice to curb nuclear proliferation.”
“We must unequivocally denounce the DPRK’s illegal behavior… and we must call on the DPRK to fully and faithfully implement all relevant Security Council resolutions,” he said.
“And we must address the DPRK’s global revenue-generating activities, which finance its illegal weapons program.”