North Korea will never acknowledge UN sanctions resolutions, said Ms Kim Yo Jong. Read more at straitstimes.com.
Ms Kim Yo Jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and a powerful ruling party official, said the meeting was another sign that the council served as a US “political appendage” by accepting Washington’s “robbery demands” to ignore the country’s right to space development.
She said the satellite launch was a “legitimate, self-defensive countermeasure” against increasing threats from the US and its allies, which Pyongyang have accused of rekindling tension with their annual springtime military drills. In another dispatch, KCNA published a commentary by Mr Kim Myong Chol, whom it described as an international affairs analyst, criticising a resolution adopted by the International Maritime Organisation’s security committee.
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