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WORLD NEWS Tuesday 22 November 2022

North Korea calls UN’s Guterres ‘puppet of US’ after launch

By HYUNG-JIN KIM er “reliable and maximum-
Associated Press capacity” weapon to con-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — tain U.S. military threats.
North Korea’s foreign min- Some experts say the Hwa-
ister called U.N. Secretary- song-17 is still under devel-
General Antonio Guterres opment but it’s the North’s
“a puppet of the United longest-range missile and is
States” as she slammed the designed to carry several
U.N. chief for joining U.S.- nuclear warheads to over-
led condemnation of the come U.S. missile defense
North’s recent interconti- systems.
nental ballistic missile test. North Korea has argued its
U.N. Secretary-General testing activities are a warn-
Antonio Guterres earlier is- ing to the United States and
sued a statement strongly South Korea over their se-
condemning North Korea’s ries of military drills that the
ICBM launch on Friday and North believes were an in-
reiterating his call on the vasion rehearsal. Washing-
North to “to immediately ton and Seoul have main-
desist from taking any fur- tained their exercises are
ther provocative actions.” defensive in nature.
Guterres’s statement came In her statement Monday,
after the United States and Choe again defended her
other countries issued simi- United Nations Secretary General Antonio Guterres speaks ahead of the G20 Summit in Bali, country’s missile tests, call-
lar criticism of the North’s Indonesia on Nov. 14, 2022. ing them “legitimate and
ICBM test that showed an Associated Press just exercise of the right
potential to strike anywhere Choe accused Guterres of and its allies’ moves to rity Council,” said the state- to self-defense” against
in the continental U.S. overlooking the U.S. and toughen sanctions on the ment by foreign ministers “provocative nuclear war
“I often take the U.N. sec- its allies taking the North’s North over its banned tests from the Group of Seven rehearsals” by the United
retary-general for a mem- ICBM test to the U.N. Securi- of ballistic missiles earlier this nations Canada, France, States and its allies.
ber of the U.S. White House ty Council, saying that “This year. On Sunday, top diplo- Germany, Italy, Japan, the She said it’s “most amazing
or its State Department,” clearly proves that he is a mats from the world’s major United Kingdom and the and deplorable to me” as
North Korean Foreign Minis- puppet of the U.S.” industrialized democracies United States. Guterres still blamed North
ter Choe Son Hui said in a The U.N. Security Council issued a joint statement Friday’s ICBM launch was Korea for a recent flare-up
statement carried by state scheduled an emergency calling for strong steps by the latest in North Korea’s in tensions on the Korean
media. “I express my strong meeting for Monday morn- the U.N. Security Council in ongoing torrid run of missile Peninsula, not the United
regret over the fact that the ing on North Korea’s ICBM reaction to the North Kore- tests that experts say are States.
U.N. secretary-general has launch at Japan’s request. an missile launch. meant to boost its nuclear A day before her country’s
taken a very deplorable at- But it’s unclear if it can im- “(North Korea’s) actions capability and increase its ICBM test, Choe threat-
titude, oblivious of the pur- pose new economic sanc- demand a united and ro- leverage in future diplo- ened to threatened to
pose and principles of the tions on North Korea be- bust response by the in- macy. launch “fiercer” military re-
U.N. Charter and its proper cause China and Russia, ternational community, North Korea said leader Kim sponses to steps by the U.S.
mission which is to maintain two of the council’s veto- including the need for fur- Jong Un observed Friday’s to bolster its security com-
impartiality, objectivity and wielding members, have ther significant measures to launch of its Hwasong-17 mitment to South Korea
equity in all matters.” opposed the previous U.S. be taken by the U.N. Secu- missile and called it anoth- and Japan.q

Canada sanctions ex-Haiti president and prime ministers

DJERBA, Tunisia (AP) — The Caribbean country is has asked for an interna-
Canada has expanded its paralyzed by gang war- tional military intervention
economic sanctions freez- fare. to combat gangs who
ing the Canadian assets “Our goal is to make sure have strangled access to
of Haitian political elites to that these people that are fuel and critical supplies in
include former president profiting from the violence, the middle of the outbreak.
Michel Martelly and former that are part of a corrupt- Canadian military interven-
prime ministers Laurent La- ed system, are facing ac- tion in Haiti can’t happen
mothe and Jean-Henry Cé- countability,” she said. unless all political parties in
ant. Haitian Foreign Affairs Min- the troubled nation agree
Foreign Affairs Minister Mé- ister Jean Victor Généus to it, Trudeau said Sunday.
lanie Joly accused the trio said the new sanctions The country is seeing rising
this weekend of helping put real consequences on violence and increasingly
gangs undermine Haiti’s those causing a “night- brazen attacks by Haitian
current government and mare” in his country. gangs that have grown
called on international “These sanctions will have more powerful since the
partners to follow Cana- a dissuasive impact,” he July 2021 assassination of Foreign Minister of Haiti Jean Victor Geneus and Canadian Prime
da’s lead. She made the said in French, while seated President Jovenel Moïse. Minister Justin Trudeau, right, take part in a discussion regarding
announcement at a two- Saturday between Prime The chaos has spurred on the situation in Haiti on the sidelines of the Francophonie Summit
in Djerba, Tunisia, on Sunday, Nov. 20, 2022.
day Francophonie summit Minister Justin Trudeau and a huge migratory exodus Associated Press
in Tunisia. Joly. Haiti’s government from the island.q