North Korea's missile launches are "
ridiculing
" the UN Security Council, US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said Friday at a Council meeting.
The diplomat accused, without naming them, China and Russia close to Pyongyang, "
two members of this Council, of giving North Korea a protective cover
" and of "
giving in to justify the repeated violations of the North Korea and allow it to ridicule the
United Nations Security Council.