“Europe calls for a meeting of the Security Council on the 30th… Discussing Response to North Korean Missile Launch”

Input 2021.03.28 07:33

AFP news agency reported on the 27th (local time) that European members of the UN Security Council requested a meeting to discuss the issue of North Korea’s ballistic missile launch.

Reportedly, the five countries that called for a meeting were Britain, France, Norway, Estonia and Ireland. These countries demanded that the Security Council hold a closed meeting on the 30th. Russia’s TASS news agency also reported that France, a permanent member of the Security Council on behalf of European countries, called for a meeting and the meeting is expected to be held privately on the 30th.

The members of the Security Council previously held a closed teleconference with the North Korea Sanctions Committee the day before and expressed concern over North Korea’s launch of ballistic missiles. They all agreed that the expert panel of the North Korean Sanctions Committee should investigate North Korea’s launch of two short-range ballistic missiles on the 25th. The agenda to extend it by one year was also unanimously approved.

North Korea conducted a test launch of a ballistic missile on the 25th following the first cruise missile test launch since the inauguration of the US administration on the 21st of Joe Biden. The launch of a ballistic missile is a violation of the resolution of the UN Security Council.

The Chosun Central News Agency confirmed on the 26th, “The Defense Academy of Sciences conducted a test launch of a new tactical guided missile newly developed on March 25.” It hit the target exactly,” he reported.

It is estimated that North Korea launched an improved version of the North Korean version of Iskander (KN-23), which was unveiled at the labor party’s 8th Congress in January. In the photo released by the news agency, the new tactical guided bullet is a sharp warhead with crossed blacks and whites, like the improved Iskander from the heat byeongsik.

North Korea has revealed that this is a weapon system that has improved the weight of the warhead of the new tactical guided missile to 2.5 tons, which is interpreted as taking into account the new ballistic missile of the Korean military, the Hyunmu-4. The warhead weight of the Hyeonmu-4, which was successfully launched by the Korean military last year, is 2 tons and the maximum range is known to be 800 km.