North Korean shooting: China and Russia refuse the UN to toughen sanctions – Stock Exchange Direct

Photo released on March 25, 2022 by North Korea’s Kcna news agency of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (c) in front of a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile at an unspecified location in North Korea on March 24, 2022 (STR/ KCNA VIA KNS/AFP )International outrage over North Korea’s firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) was met with a refusal by China and the United Nations Security Council on Thursday. of Russia to strengthen sanctions against Pyongyang. The American ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, denounced during a meeting of the Security Council the “increasingly dangerous provocations” of North Korea and announced that the United States would introduce a resolution to “strengthen the sanctions regime” adopted during a previous North Korean ICBM launch in 2017. But Beijing and Moscow have ruled out any hardening. Chinese Ambassador Zhang Jun even pleaded on the contrary for a “relief of sanctions at the right time”, while Russian diplomat Anna Evstigneeva expressed concern that a strengthening of sanctions “would threaten North Korean citizens with social problems. – economic and humanitarian unacceptable”. The missile, fired on Thursday, flew higher and further than any previous ICBM tested by the nuclear-armed nation. Named the Hwasong-17, it is capable of striking any part of US territory, and has landed in Japan’s Exclusive Economic Maritime Zone. North Korean leader Kim Jong Un personally ordered and supervised the test, assuring state news agency KCNA that the missile would bring “awareness to the whole world (. ..) of the power of our strategic armed forces”. North Korea is “ready for a long-term confrontation with the American imperialists”, added the one who appears, in photos taken by state media, dressed in his usual black leather jacket and dark sunglasses, walking on the tarmac in front of a huge missile.”Violation”The shooting was condemned on Friday by the G7 which denounced a “flagrant violation” of North Korea’s obligations vis-à-vis the United Nations. North Korean sile ( / AFP )”These reckless actions threaten regional and international peace and security, pose a dangerous and unpredictable risk to international civil aviation and maritime navigation in the region and demand a united response from the international community. “, underlined the foreign ministers of the seven members of the G7 as well as the high representative of the European Union. North Korea “certainly has other things in store” after firing this missile, further estimated the US national security adviser Jake Sullivan. The Hwasong-17, first unveiled in October 2020, is dubbed a “monster missile” by analysts. It had never been successfully tested before, and the launch prompted new US sanctions. It is “a breach of the moratorium on intercontinental ballistic missile launches to which President Kim Jong Un” had committed in 2017, South Korea’s President Moon Jae-in lamented. The South Korean military said it retaliated by firing “missiles from the ground, sea and air” off its coast. Photo released on March 25, 2022 by North Korea’s Kcna news agency of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un (c) applauding during a Hwasong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile launch at an unspecified location in North Korea on March 24, 2022. ( STR/KCNA VIA KNS/AFP ) UN resolutions ban North Korea, hit by heavy international sanctions over its nuclear and weapons programs, from testing ballistic missiles. not prevent Pyongyang from carrying out a dozen tests of this type of armament since the beginning of the year. But it was not so far intercontinental missiles, even if Washington and Seoul suspect the North Korean regime of having tested certain ICBM systems during these launches. Pyongyang carried out three ICBM launches in 2017. The device then tested, the Hwasong-15, was able to reach the United States. Failure last week According to Seoul, a missile test by North Korea on March 16 ended in failure, with the projectile exploding in the sky over Pyongyang shortly after launch. North Korean missiles ( Janis LATVELS / AFP ) Analysts had expected Pyongyang, which will celebrate the 110th anniversary of the birth of Kim Il Sung, the country’s founder and grandfather of Kim Jong Un, on April 15. delivers a show of force to mark the most important holiday on the North Korean political calendar. Kim Jong Un said last year that improving the country’s military capabilities was a priority for the regime. Priority among priorities: developing an ICBM capable of carrying multiple conventional or nuclear warheads each following an independent trajectory, difficult to intercept by anti-missile systems.” Kim probably feels that now is the perfect time to develop ICBMs, and remind to the world with insistence that the North, unlike Ukraine, is a nuclear-armed country,” North Korea expert Ahn Chan-il told AFP. ■