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North Korea launches missile to sea, UN ambassador attacks US: "Double standards"
Pyongyang continues to pace its weapons, and Japan has identified the launch as a ballistic missile, without elaborating.
In Seoul and Washington condemned, but the North Korean ambassador to the UN said in his speech at the General Assembly: "We will not be denied the right to self-defense."
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Tuesday, 28 September 2021, 10:47
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North Korea today (Tuesday) launched a missile into the sea off the east coast and accused the United States and South Korea of "double standards" preventing the resumption of nuclear talks. This is the third experiment Pyongyang has conducted in recent weeks.
According to the Southern Army, a missile from the northern province of Jangang was fired at around 6:40 p.m. The Japanese Ministry of Defense said it appeared to be a ballistic missile, without elaborating. The Indian-Pacific Command in the United States military said the missile did not pose a threat, but its launch undermined the region's stability. The US State Department also condemned the experiment.
"We are grateful that the missile was launched at an important time to stabilize the situation on the Korean Peninsula," a Defense Ministry spokesman in Seoul told reporters. President Moon Jae-im instructed his advisers to conduct a comprehensive examination of the latest steps taken by the communist regime.
The launch came shortly before North Korea's ambassador to the UN before the General Assembly, during which he urged the United States to abandon "hostile policies" towards Pyongyang. He stressed that no country could deny North Korea its "right to self-defense and weapons testing." .
"according to our assessment, there is no feasibility at this point that the United States is really abandon its hostile policy," Ambassador Kim Sung attacked, urging Washington to avoid double morality ". he said the Southern president's call last week to officially end the Korean War , Which ended in 1953 only with a ceasefire, and conditioned it on the cessation of all US exercises with the South and the removal of "all strategic weapons" from the peninsula and the region.The
United States holds many advanced weapons in the area, including nuclear bombers and fighter jets in South Korea, Guam and Japan, as part From the effort to deter North Korea - but also China.
The North Korean ambassador's speech at the UN was in line with the regime's official stance. Kim Yoo Jong, the much more powerful sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, said Pyongyang was ready to improve intra-Korean relations and consider another summit with south - if it will cease "double standard" of its hostile policy towards and the North.
"she mentioned conditions are in fact a requirement to accept North Korea as a nuclear state," said boom-Chul Shin, senior Fellow research Institute of national strategy in Seoul, Korea. " "Their goal is to achieve this prestigious status and cause a rift between Seoul and Washington, and to take advantage of Moon's desire for a diplomatic achievement towards the end of his term."
Moon, the liberal president of South Korea, has put a lot of effort into improving relations with the North throughout his tenure.
He believes that the official end of the war, even without a peace agreement, could resume nuclear talks between Pyongyang and Washington.
However, Moon, who could not run for another term, is experiencing a drop in his popularity ahead of the March presidential election.
Hopes for a diplomatic solution to the North Korean nuclear crisis intensified after the historic meeting between Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump in 2018.
However, two more summits between the two leaders have not led to a breakthrough and talks have not been renewed since 2019.
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