The United States has called a meeting of the UN Security Council on Friday to discuss North Korea’s attempt to launch a satellite this week, a spokesman for the North American mission to the United Nations said.
The launch on Wednesday (31) was an attempt by North Korea to put its first spy satellite into space, but it ended up failing: the propellant and cargo fell into the sea.
Washington condemned the launch, saying the act used ballistic missile technology in violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions, and threatens to destabilize the security situation in the region and beyond.
A spokesman for the US mission to the United Nations, Nate Evans, said the US held an open meeting on the launch, which means the proceedings will be broadcast live.
Another UN diplomat said the contact was made in cooperation with Albania, Ecuador, France, Japan, Malta and the United Kingdom.
After the failed launch, North Korean Kim Yo Jong, the sister of leader Kim Jong Un, said that her country would soon put a spy satellite into orbit, and promised that Pyongyang would increase its military monitoring capabilities.
“North Korea’s dangerous and destabilizing nuclear and missile programs threaten peace and stability in the region,” US Secretary of Defense Lloyd Austin said Thursday in Tokyo.
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