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The UN Security Council (illustrative image). Manuel ELIAS / UNITED NATIONS / AFP

The United Nations is particularly vigilant on the North Korean issue at the end of the year. Diplomats expect the main actors to be tense, as the window of negotiations between Washington and Pyongyang, which opened in Singapore in June 2018, is expected to close by December 31.

With our correspondent in New York, Carrie Nooten

Tension is rising around the Korean peninsula. Kim Jong-un set the tone last Thursday, the day of Thanksgiving celebrated in the United States, ordering a missile ballistic missile. This is the 13th since May, in complete violation of the UN resolution.

He went on to declare on Tuesday, December 3 that it was up to the Americans to " choose their Christmas present " from him, a thinly veiled threat.

" A good Christmas present would be all these actions towards a verifiable and irreversible denuclearization, " said the British representative to the United Nations, Karen Pierce, ironically. But I think North Korea's behavior so far has been rather unfortunate by the proliferation of missiles and violations, "she added.

The six European countries of the Security Council condemned North Korea's provocative attitude with its continuous ballistic missile fire . They also insisted that the North Koreans were pursuing their nuclear program, and they fear that the stalemate in Washington and Pyongyang will lead to further North Korean isolation, and the possibility of nuclear tests or missile firing. Long range.