North Korea denounces the UN Security Council for discussing its recent satellite launch in response to a 'gangster-like US request', and vows to take action to defend itself
UN sanctions resolutions are a "product of hostile policy of the US and its vassal forces" and North Korea would never acknowledge them, Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader, says.North Korea attempted to launch a spy satellite on May 31 but it crashed into the sea after a rocket failure, with the South Korean military retrieving part of the likely wreckage in a potential intelligence bonanza.
North Korea has denounced the UN Security Council for discussing its recent satellite launch in response to a"gangster-like US request", and it vowed to reject sanctions and take action to defend itself. Kim Yo-jong, sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and a powerful ruling party official, said that in accepting Washington's"gangster-like request" and ignoring North Korea's right to space development, the Security Council was showing it was the US"political appendage".
"I am very unpleased that the UNSC so often calls to account the DPRK's exercise of its rights as a sovereign state at the request of the US, and bitterly condemn and reject it as the most unfair and biased act of interfering in its internal affairs and violating its sovereignty," Kim said on Sunday in a statement carried by the state KCNA news agency.
UN sanctions resolutions are a"product of hostile policy of the US and its vassal forces" and North Korea would never acknowledge them, she said, pledging to exercise sovereign rights, including launching spy satellites.
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