SEOUL: North Korea condemned on Monday (Jan 12) what it known as “shameless” strikes by the USA that it stated undermined the United Nations and accused Washington of a “hideous legal act”.
Pyongyang’s mission to the United Nations in New York blasted reported plans for a briefing on its alleged violations of sanctions, in a press release carried by the state-run Korean Central Information Company.
As a substitute, it stated, “what ought to be questioned and brazenly mentioned within the UN as crucial pending situation is the hideous legal act of the US”.
“The US despises the existence of the UN itself,” Pyongyang stated.
Pyongyang’s envoys didn’t specify the act in query, however the assertion comes simply over per week after the USA’ capture of Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro.
That operation represents a nightmare state of affairs for North Korea’s management, which has lengthy feared a so-called “decapitation strike” of that sort and accused Washington of searching for to take away it from energy.
Washington’s “irrationality and malpractice of abusing the UN enviornment to fulfill its geopolitical self-interest ought to by no means be allowed”, North Korea’s mission stated.
It additionally accused Washington of “shameless unlawful and immoral acts” and “attempting to make a mockery of the UN enviornment for unilateral and egocentric functions”.
President Donald Trump final week introduced the USA would leave a number of United Nations organisations it recognized as “opposite to the pursuits of the USA”.
North Korea is below a slew of United Nations Safety Council sanctions over its nuclear and missile programme.
