UN Security Council to meet on Thursday over North Korea recent missile launches
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The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting Thursday local time to discuss North Korea's recent missile launches.
This will be the first time since the North and the U.S. started their diplomacy in earnest a year and a half ago.
Hong Yoo reports.
Britain, France and Germany have requested for the UN Security Council to meet behind closed doors to discuss the growing concerns that Pyeongyang is violating the UN Security Council resolutions.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday according to the South Korean military, just days after two similar launches.
Pyeongyang is banned from conducting ballistic missile launches of any kind by UN Security Council resolutions aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
Speaking on Wednesday local time,...a spokesman for the UN said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the missile launches were "just another reminder of the importance of restarting talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".
The council meeting on Thursday local time will be the first since diplomatic efforts to denuclearize the regime gained momentum in early 2018.
Hopes for reviving stalled denuclearization talks had been high since U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the DMZ on June 30.
But on Thursday, North Korea's state news agency said the missile launches were aimed to pressure South Korea and the United States to stop upcoming military drills which it called "the root cause of confrontation and war".
Hong Yoo, Arirang News.
The UN Security Council will hold a closed-door meeting Thursday local time to discuss North Korea's recent missile launches.
This will be the first time since the North and the U.S. started their diplomacy in earnest a year and a half ago.
Hong Yoo reports.
Britain, France and Germany have requested for the UN Security Council to meet behind closed doors to discuss the growing concerns that Pyeongyang is violating the UN Security Council resolutions.
North Korea fired two ballistic missiles on Wednesday according to the South Korean military, just days after two similar launches.
Pyeongyang is banned from conducting ballistic missile launches of any kind by UN Security Council resolutions aimed at denuclearizing the Korean peninsula.
Speaking on Wednesday local time,...a spokesman for the UN said Secretary-General Antonio Guterres believes the missile launches were "just another reminder of the importance of restarting talks on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".
The council meeting on Thursday local time will be the first since diplomatic efforts to denuclearize the regime gained momentum in early 2018.
Hopes for reviving stalled denuclearization talks had been high since U.S. President Donald Trump met with North Korean leader Kim Jong Un at the DMZ on June 30.
But on Thursday, North Korea's state news agency said the missile launches were aimed to pressure South Korea and the United States to stop upcoming military drills which it called "the root cause of confrontation and war".
Hong Yoo, Arirang News.