US President Joe Biden’s condemnation of missile fire by North Korea on Thursday has been called“Interference” by Pyongyang, state agency KCNA reported on Saturday (March 27th). “This kind of remark on the part of the American president is an undisguised interference in the right to self-defense of our State and a provocation towards it”, said Ri Pyong-chol, who supervised the shooting, according to KCNA received in Seoul.
North Korea expresses “His deep concern at the fact that the head of the American executive considers the normal test to be faulty [effectué jeudi], exercise of our State’s right to self-defense, qualifying it as a violation of “resolutions” of ONU “Mr. Ri said in the statement. He regretted that Mr. Biden had thus expressed, according to him, his “Deep hostility” towards Pyongyang.
North Korea conducted a test shot on Thursday of what it described as a new “Guided tactical projectile” equipped with a solid fuel engine. Two examples of this device were fired from the east of North Korea towards targets located in the Sea of Japan, called in Korea the East Sea.
A “first misstep” of the Biden administration
US President Joe Biden said Security Council resolution 1718 was “Violated by these missiles which have been tested”. “We are consulting our partners and allies. And there will be answers if [les dirigeants nord-coréens] choose climbing. We will respond accordingly “, then warned the President of the United States. Mr. Biden said he was ready “To a certain form of diplomacy” with North Korea, “But subject to the condition of denuclearization”.
“I think the new American administration has clearly made its first misstep”Ri said, commenting on Biden’s comments in his statement, released Friday according to KCNA. And the senior North Korean official in turn issued a warning to Washington. “If the United States persists with its rash remarks without thinking about the consequences, it could be faced with something that would not be good. “
North Korea, for its part, intends to “Continue to increase [son] overwhelming military power “, added Mr. Ri.
On Friday morning, at the initiative of the United States, the UN Sanctions Committee in charge of North Korea, bringing together the fifteen member countries of the Security Council, had asked its group of UN experts to investigate North Korean missile fire on Thursday, diplomats said. European members of the Security Council have asked their partners in this forum for a meeting on Tuesday, diplomatic sources reported.
