Johannesburg – South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol has called on the United Nations Security Council to respond to a North Korean missile strike, News South Korea reported on Friday.oon made the remarks in a telephone interview with UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres in which he called for closer communication to help North Korea fight the COVID-19 epidemic, according to the report.
North Korea has been battling its first confirmed outbreak of COVID-19, which declared a state of emergency last month. South Korea and the United States have provided assistance, including vaccines, but Pyongyang remains unresponsive while resolving a series of arms trials.
Yoon’s call for a joint UN response came after China and Russia voted in a US-led request to impose new UN sanctions on Pyongyang over the re-launch of ballistic missiles. The double veto publicly split the 15-member Security Council for the first time since it began punishing Pyongyang in 2006. In Washington, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman met Kim Gunn, South Korea’s Special Representative for Peace and Security in the Korean Peninsula, at. Thursday also discussed ways to ensure a “strong, orderly, and international” response to North Korea’s “degrading practices”, he tweeted.
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