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North Korea shrugs off UN warnings
North Korea’s Kim Jong Un has vowed to complete the rogue nation’s nuclear weapons program to build “the equilibrium of real force” with the U.S. and prevent military action against Pyongyang, the Korean Central News Agency said today.
His threat comes after the U.N. Security Council strongly condemned the hermit kingdom’s “highly provocative” ballistic missile test yesterday and demanded that Pyongyang immediately halt its “outrageous actions” and demonstrate its commitment to denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
The U.N.’s most powerful body accused North Korea of undermining regional peace and security by launching its latest missile over Japan and said its nuclear and missile tests “have caused grave security concerns around the world” and threaten all 193 U.N. member states.
North Korea’s longest-ever test flight of a ballistic missile early yesterday from Sunan, the location of Pyongyang’s international airport, signaled both defiance of North Korea’s rivals and a big technological advance. After hurtling over Japan, it landed in the northern Pacific Ocean.
Since President Trump threatened North Korea with “fire and fury” in August, the North has conducted its most powerful nuclear test, threatened to send missiles into the waters around the U.S. Pacific island territory of Guam and launched two missiles of increasing range over Japan. July saw the country’s first tests of intercontinental ballistic missiles that could strike deep into the U.S. mainland when perfected.