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