The US ambassador to the UN says Russia and China have 'bent over backwards' to justify repeated violations of sanctions by North Korea, after a series of recent ballistic missile launches by Pyongyang.
1 hours agoChina's UN ambassador says North Korea's missile launches are in response to large-scale joint military exercises run by the US and South Korea.abc.net.au/news/us-allies-clash-with-china-russia-over-north-korea-missiles/101620436The United States and its allies have clashed with China and Russia over North Korea's missile launches and American-led military exercises in South Korea, again preventing any action by the deeply divided United Nations Security Council.
She said 13 of the 15 UN Security Council members had condemned North Korea's actions since the beginning of the year. "And, in turn, they have enabled the DPRK and made a mockery of this council," Ms Thomas-Greenfield said. He also pointed to the US Defense Department's 2022 Nuclear Posture Review, which he said envisages the DPRK's use of nuclear weapons and claims that ending the DPRK regime is one of the strategy's main goals.
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