The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has vowed again to push for a second launch of a spy satellite.
FILE - Kim Yo Jong attends a wreath-laying ceremony at Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Hanoi, Vietnam, on March 2, 2019. The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed again Sunday, June 3, 2023, to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as she lambasted a U.N. Security Council meeting over the Norths first, failed launch.
“ will continue to take proactive measures to exercise all the lawful rights of a sovereign state, including the one to a military reconnaissance satellite launch,” Kim Yo Jong said in a statement carried by state media. Washington, Seoul and others criticized the North’s satellite launch for raising international tensions and urged it to return to talks.
North Korea was slapped with rounds of U.N. sanctions over its past nuclear and missile tests and satellite launches. But the U.N. Security Council failed to toughen those sanctions over North Korea’s recent testing activities because China and Russia, both permanent members of the U.N. council, blocked the U.S. and others’ attempts to do so. During the latest, China and Russia again clashed with the U.S. over the North’s failed launch.
The IMO's maritime safety committee on Wednesday adopted a rare resolution denouncing North Korea for conducting launches without proper notification that “seriously threatened the safety of seafarers and international shipping.”
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