US calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on South Korea
Sakshi Education
The United States has requested an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council on North Korea, which launched its most powerful missile since 2017 last weekend. The meeting is expected to be held on camera.
North Korea confirmed that it had fired a Hwasong-12 "ground-to-ground intermediate- and long-range ballistic missile, in its first test since 2017 of a weapon that was powerful.
US calls for emergency UN Security Council meeting on South Korea
Earlier, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres denounced the launch as "a clear violation of Security Council resolutions." The test on Sunday was North Korea's seventh in January -- the most ever carried out by the country in a calendar month, raising fears Pyongyang could renew nuclear and intercontinental missile tests.
