Korea (CNN)North Korea said the United States and the UN Security Council are “tampering with a dangerous time bomb” following a meeting over the isolated nation’s most recent ballistic missile test, state media reported.Pyongyang claims it successfully test-fired a new ballistic missile from a submarine on Tuesday, following months of seesawing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. The UN Security Council held a closed-door meeting Wednesday to discuss North Korea in the wake of the test.In an article by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA), North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the US had taken “provocative moves” by calling for an emergency meeting of the UN Security Council.
“When doing the recent test-firing we did not have the US in mind nor aimed at it, but it is the work which had already been planned purely for the defense of the country,” the ministry said, according to KCNA. “So there is no need for the US to worry or trouble itself over the test-firing.”
France, Ireland and Estonia issued a joint statement after the UN Security Council meeting, calling for strict enforcement of sanctions against North Korea, which is barred from testing ballistic missiles and nuclear weapons under international law.
The countries called the launch a clear violation of UN Security Council resolutions and asked North Korea to engage in talks.
Source : CNN