NEW YORK: The United Nations Security Council is meeting to discuss North Korea’s ballistic missile test in violation of UN resolutions.
The North Korea has recently conducted two ballistic missile tests in less than a week.
The missile tests come as the US and North Korea are trying to restart stalled denuclearization talks.
The UN Security Council will meet Thursday behind closed doors at the request of the United Kingdom, France and Germany, to discuss recent North Korean ballistic missile launches, diplomats said.
North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles, South Korea’s military said Wednesday, the second such test in less than a week. UN Security Council resolutions prohibit Pyongyang from ballistic missile tests.
North Korea’s state media agency, KCNA, said Thursday that leader Kim Jong Un supervised the test of a “newly developed large-caliber multiple launch guided rocket system” the day before.
It reported the system would “play a main role in ground military operations” and create “inescapable distress to the forces becoming a fat target of the weapon.”
The report contradicted the South’s military assessment that the North tested two short-range ballistic missiles that flew about 250 kilometers (155 miles) at a height of 30 kilometers.
Wednesday’s test followed similar ones six days earlier, which North Korea said were meant as a “solemn warning” to South Korea over its high-tech defense purchases and planned joint military exercises with US troops in August.
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