US asks UN Security Council for tougher sanctions against North Korea following Pyongyang's intercontinental ballistic missile launch
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US ambassador to the United Nations, addresses the United Nations Security Council concerning North Korea's test-firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile, Friday March 25, 2022 at UN headquarters.
"The United States calls on all member states to fully implement the existing Security Council resolutions," US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said on Friday during the meeting convened to discuss North Korea. At the time "the council decided we would take further action in the event of a DPRK ICBM launch," Thomas-Greenfield said.The unanimously adopted text was voted on a month after Pyongyang fired its last previous intercontinental ballistic missile , the Hwasong-15, which was deemed powerful enough to reach the continental United States.
"The DPRK is demonstrating its determination to continue advancing its weapons program as it escalates its provocative behavior -- and yet the Council has remained silent," said the countries, which include non-permanent Security Council members Brazil, Ireland and Norway, as well as Germany, Japan and South Korea.
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