Security Council blocked by China... 'North Korea ICBM discussion' ended without results again

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A UN Security Council meeting has been urgently convened to discuss the issue of North Korea's ICBM launch.

However, again this time, China and Russia insisted on US responsibility and raised the need to ease sanctions on North Korea, and it ended again without results.

Correspondent Seung-Mo Nam reports from Washington.

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A UN Security Council meeting convened after North Korea's Hwasong-17 launch on the 18th.

The United States said it condemned in the strongest terms that North Korea had fired 63 ballistic missiles this year, including eight ICBMs.

He then criticized China and Russia for exercising their veto power, saying, "This is the 10th time the Security Council has met without any action on the North Korean provocation issue."

[Thomas-Greenfield/U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations: The blatant

obstruction of the two permanent members (China and Russia) has endangered Northeast Asia and the world.]

It demanded the adoption of a statement by the chairman, which is an expression of intention at the level.

However, China turned its arrow to the United States, saying that the only way to solve the problem through dialogue was to halt US military exercises and ease sanctions against North Korea.

[Jiang Jun/Chinese Ambassador to the United Nations: In order to resolve the problem, (the United States) must stop military exercises and ease sanctions against North Korea while maintaining the process of denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.]

Russia also argued that North Korea's provocations were the result of confrontational military action by the United States and its regional allies, and that Western countries had ignored North Korea's demands to stop hostilities.

[Evstigniva/Russian Deputy Ambassador to the United Nations: In our view, the reason why this happens (such as North Korea's provocation) is because of the obvious US desire to unilaterally disarm North Korea through sanctions and coercion.]

This meeting After the meeting ended without much success, ambassadors from 14 countries, including South Korea, the United States and Japan, issued an outside joint statement condemning North Korea's missile provocations and calling for denuclearization immediately after the meeting.