The United States and its allies urged the U.N. Security Council on Monday to condemn North Korea's unlawful ballistic missile launches, but China and Russia blamed the U.S. for escalating tensions with stepped-up military exercises targeting Pyongyang.
At the emergency meeting, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield told the council that the United States will propose a presidential statement, saying at a minimum all 15 members should be agreeable to condemning the North's unprecedented missile launches, to urging Pyongyang to comply with U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions, and "to engage in meaningful dialogue."
The launches and North Korea's threatening rhetoric are undermining international peace and security, Thomas-Greenfield said. That resolution urges the Security Council to end a host of sanctions against North Korea and calls on the U.S. and North Korea to resume dialogue and consider taking steps to reduce tensions and the risk of military confrontation including by adopting a declaration or peace treaty formally ending the 1950-53 Korean War. The war ended with an armistice, leaving the peninsula technically in a state of war.
Russia's deputy ambassador Dmitry Polyansky told the council North Korea is responding with missile tests to "the unprecedented military maneuvers in the region under the United States umbrella which are clearly anti-Pyongyang in nature." To those who contend that Security Council meetings provoke North Korea "and hence we should remain silent," Ishikane retorted that remaining silent "will only encourage rule-breakers to write the playbook as they like."
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