The UN Security Council is holding an urgent meeting to discuss how North Korea launched a ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan on the 5th of this month.
Prior to the meeting, the United States and Japan jointly issued a statement accusing North Korea of "the launch violates multiple Security Council resolutions."
North Korea launched a missile toward the Sea of Japan on the 5th of this month, and announced on the 6th that it had conducted a hypersonic missile launch experiment.
On the 10th, the UN Security Council is holding an urgent meeting to discuss how to deal with this, based on the requests of five countries in Europe and the United States, including the United States, the United Kingdom, and France.
Prior to this, Japan joined the five countries that requested the meeting as related countries, and the six countries jointly issued a statement.
The statement was read by United Nations Ambassador to the United Nations Thomas Greenfield, "This launch of a ballistic missile clearly violates several Security Council resolutions. North Korea's ballistic missile program threatens the peace and security of the international community." He accused North Korea of returning to the dialogue.
The Security Council also held an emergency meeting when North Korea launched a series of missiles from September to October last year, but due to differences in the positions of Western countries and China and Russia, it is not possible to take a unified response. was.
At this meeting as well, some say that it may be difficult for the Security Council to show a consistent stance.