A meeting of the United Nations Security Council is expected to be convened to discuss the issue of North Korea’s provocation of an intermediate-range ballistic missile.
Citing US government officials, Reuters reported that the US will soon request a public Security Council meeting.
A meeting is called if none of the member countries object to the request for an open meeting of the Security Council.
It is explained that this is due to the fact that China and Russia, which have the right of veto as permanent members of the Security Council, have a negative position on the additional sanctions against North Korea.
In particular, at the Security Council meeting called urgently in March following the launch of North Korea’s ICBM test, China expressed its opposition to the strengthening of international sanctions, saying: “You do not have to do anything. which will aggravate the situation “.
In 2017, the Security Council adopted Resolution 2397, which included provisions that automatically tighten sanctions on the oil supply to North Korea if North Korea fires an additional ICBM when North Korea launched the Hwasong missile. -15 in 2017.
The missile that North Korea launched on Japan this time is a medium-range ballistic missile presumed to be of the Hwasong-12 type.
