U.N. Security Council convenes North Korea's IRBM launch meeting...South Korea vs. North Korea-Russia confrontation

South Korea, the United States, North Korea and Russia confronted North Korea's recent launch of an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) at a U.N. Security Council meeting.

From our perspective, the UN Security Council held a briefing session at the UN headquarters at 5 a.m. today on the issue of North Korea's non-proliferation and discussed the launch of ballistic missiles.

At the meeting, South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, France, and Japan strongly criticized North Korea's missile launch, and Russia and North Korea protested it and showed a tense confrontation.

U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres has consistently emphasized that "North Korea's continued missile launches using ballistic missile technology clearly violate relevant Security Council resolutions."

The Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired one IRBM from Pyongyang to the East Sea on the 6th, and North Korea claimed that the "new hypersonic mid- to long-range ballistic missile" succeeded in test-firing.