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The United States and allies South Korea and Japan slashed with China and Russia on May 31st over North korea’s latest satellite and ballistic missile Salvo launches and threats to use nuclear weapons that have escalated tensions in North East Asia.
Clash in UN security council :
The scene was an emergency open meeting of the UN security council called after North korea’s failed launch of a military reconnaissance satellite on May 27 and other launches using ballistic missile technology in violation of UN sanctions.
Since the beginning of 2022, the democratic peoples republic of Korea has launched over 100 missiles using this banned technology as it has advanced it nuclear weapons program. In response the US and its allies have carried out and increasing number of military exercises.
The north korea’s UN ambassador Kim song insisted that it satellite launches and it has successful one last November are the legitimate and universal right of a Sovereign state under international law and the outer space treaty. He stressed that reconnaissance satellite or not only needed to strengthen its self defence capabilities but to defend its sovereignty.
DPRK leader Kim Jong un’s sister, Kim yo-jong saying two weeks ago that the only purpose of their tactical nuclear weapons is to teach a lesson to Seoul.
Russia’s UN ambassador Anna Evstigneeva countered that “one of the key catalysts for the growing tension in the region has been and remains the build-up of military activity by the US and its allies.