The council last took action on North Korea in 2017, when it adopted a resolution to strengthen sanctions. Read more at straitstimes.com.
and encourage Pyongyang to engage in diplomacy, warning that the 15-member body’s failure to respond had become dangerous.
“The council’s lack of action is worse than shameful. It is dangerous,” she told the Security Council, proposing that it adopt a formal presidential statement - one step below a resolution - to condemn North Korea’s action and urge diplomacy. China’s Deputy UN Ambassador Dai Bing said repeated council meetings and calls for more sanctions on North Korea “neither embodies the constructive role of easing the situation, nor brings new ideas conducive for solving the problem”.
The Security Council met on Monday after North Korea launched two more ballistic missiles, with the powerful sister of leader Kim Jong Un saying Pyongyang’s use of the Pacific as a “firing range” would depend on the behaviour of US forces.
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