n this picture supplied by North Korea’s official Korean Central Information Company, Kim Yo-jong (circled in crimson), the sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-un, watches as Kim Jong-un (entrance, in a black jacket) visits a development website in North Pyeongan Province on Oct. 6. (Yonhap)
Kim Yo-jong, the highly effective sister of North Korean chief Kim Jong-un, on Saturday condemned the United Nations for criticizing the nation’s latest test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), reaffirming Pyongyang’s stance to retain nuclear weapons improvement.
U.N. Secretary-Common Antonio Guterres on Thursday denounced North Korea’s launch of a Hwasong-19 ICBM as a violation of U.N. Safety Council resolutions.
Kim Yo-jong, vice division director of the Staff’ Occasion’s Central Committee, expressed “sturdy dissatisfaction” with Guterres’ remarks, calling them “unfair and prejudiced” in a press release carried by the North’s Korean Central Information Company (KCNA) on Saturday.
Kim accused nations “hostile” to North Korea of forming a army bloc based mostly on nuclear weapons, asking, “Does the U.N. secretary-general assume … peace might be ensured on the Korean peninsula” if North Korea restrains itself?
She additionally reaffirmed the North Korean chief’s stand of by no means altering the nation’s “line of bolstering” its nuclear forces.
“Have sanction, strain and threats stopped us? They’ve solely made us stronger,” she mentioned, stressing that the nation “won’t ever tolerate any try to threaten the safety setting of the state.”
In a separate assertion carried by the KCNA, the North’s overseas ministry additionally protested the UNSC’s plan to convene on Monday on North Korea’s newest ICBM launch.
The ministry accused “hostile forces” of making a vital state of affairs towards the safety setting of North Korea by “unlawful double requirements,” strongly denouncing the assembly as a violation of the U.N. Constitution and a “grave problem” to worldwide peace and safety.
“The extra provocative act the hostile forces absorb defiance of the DPRK’s grave warning, the stronger counteraction they are going to face,” the ministry mentioned, utilizing the acronym for the Democratic Individuals’s Republic of Korea.
