On Friday, North Korean leader Kim Jong Un announced that us mainland is now within range of his country’s nuclear weapons after North Korea successfully tested its first submarine-launched missile.
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North Korea has expressed anger at United Nations Security Council discussions over a statement denouncing the country’s latest submarine-launched missile test.
The security council statement called on United Nations member states to “redouble their efforts” at a weapons embargo and economic sanctions against North Korea as a result of the missile tests.
The regime of Kim Jong-un has also felt increasingly vulnerable after U.S. nuclear armed B-2 and B-52 bombers have patrolled the region providing North Korea with the stark reality of the consequences of a misstep.
North Korea test-fired a submarine-launched ballistic missile on Wednesday, days after threatening a nuclear strike in retaliation at the start of large-scale South Korea- US military exercises.
He said that the latest submarine-launched missile didn’t cause any harm to the security of neighboring countries.
“Such activities contribute to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension”, it said.
The council expressed “serious concern” that North Koreacarried out the launches after six ballistic missile firingsbetween April and June “in flagrant disregard” of its repeatedstatements to halt such launches as well as nuclear testswhich violate council resolutions.
The condemnatory text was approved by the 15 UNSC members, including China, a North Korean ally, EFE news reported.
It said the activities have further raised the anger of North Korean soldiers at a time when the Korean Peninsula has reached the “brink of war” due to last Monday’s start of annual joint military drills between the US and South Korea that Pyongyang says are an invasion rehearsal.
The council statement was adopted after several rounds of negotiations with China, which has insisted over recent weeks on the need to avoid an escalation of tension on the Korean peninsula.
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North Korea leader Kim Jong-Un on Thursday boasted that the latest submarine-launched missile test was the “greatest success”, putting the USA mainland and the Pacific “within the striking range”.
