UN council sets December date to meet on N’Korea nuclear missile activities

The United Nations Security Council has set a December 15 date when ministers will meet to discuss North Korea’s nuclear and missiles programs even as the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses in the North Asian country.

According to Japan’s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho, president of the 15-member council for December, several ministers were confirmed to attend the December meeting. He also said the meeting on human rights in North Korea could be held on Dec. 11.

The human right crimes catalogued in North Korea according to Michael Kirby, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry were reminiscent of those committed by the Nazis during World War Two. “Some of them are strikingly similar,” he told Reuters.

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A day after North Korea led by headstrong leader Kim Jong Un fired it’s first missile since September 15 which it claimed could reach mainland USA, a warning was issued to Pyongyang.

Speaking through its ambassador to the UN, Nikki Haley, the US sternly warned North Korea’s leadership saying it would be “utterly destroyed” if war were to break out.

While speaking at an emergency U.N. Security Council meeting, Haley said; “We have never sought war with North Korea, and still today we do not seek it. If war does come, it will be because of continued acts of aggression like we witnessed yesterday … And if war comes, make no mistake, the North Korean regime will be utterly destroyed.”

 

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