US ambassador criticised leader Kim Jong Un during a UN Security Council meeting for using 'repression and cruelty' to develop nuclear weapons and missiles.
US ambassador criticised leader Kim Jong Un during a UN Security Council meeting for using "repression and cruelty" to develop nuclear weapons and missiles.The nuclear-armed state was held accountable at the UN Security Council meeting on Thursday for spending heavily on its nuclear arms programme while its people go hungry and lack basic necessities. / Photo: AP
"We will never tolerate the US and its followers' anti- 'human rights' slander scheme and will defend the sovereignty of the state, the socialist system and security interests," North Korea's KCNA quoted as an unnamed spokesperson from the country's human rights think tank as saying on Saturday. US President Joe Biden and the leaders of South Korea and Japan agreed at Camp David on Friday to deepen military and economic co-operation, facing China's growing power and nuclear threats from North Korea.
China, North Korea's major ally, opposed the meeting of the 15-member council on abuses in North Korea but did not attempt to block it.
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