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WORLD NEWS Wednesday 23 november 2022
Kim’s sister warns U.S. of ‘a more fatal security crisis’

By HYUNG-JIN KIM North Korea’s nuclear and
Associated Press missile programs. But Rus-
SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — sia and China, both veto-
The influential sister of North wielding members of the
Korean leader Kim Jong Un Security Council, opposed
warned the United States any new pressure and
on Tuesday that it would sanctions on North Korea.
face “a more fatal secu- In May, the two countries
rity crisis” as Washington vetoed a U.S.-led attempt
pushes for U.N. condemna- to toughen sanctions on
tion of the North’s recent North Korea over its earlier
intercontinental ballistic ballistic missile tests, which
missile test. Kim Yo Jong’s are prohibited by U.N. Se-
warning came hours af- curity Council resolutions.
ter U.S. Ambassador Linda North Korea has said its
Thomas-Greenfield told an testing activities are legiti-
emergency meeting of the mate exercises of its right
U.N. Security Council that to self-defense in response
the U.S. will circulate a pro- to regular military drills be-
posed presidential state- tween the United States
ment condemning North and South Korea which
Korea’s banned missile it views as an invasion re-
launches and other desta- hearsal. Washington and
bilizing activities. After the This photo provided on Aug. 14, 2022, by the North Korean government, Kim Yo Jong, sister of Seoul officials say the ex-
meeting, Thomas-Green- North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, delivers a speech during the national meeting against the ercises are defensive in
field also read a statement coronavirus, in Pyongyang, North Korea, on Wednesday, Aug. 10, 2022, Associated Press nature. Kim Yo Jong said
by 14 countries which sup- the fact that North Korea’s
ported action to limit North States to “a barking dog the anti-(North Korea) acts, in future diplomacy. Fri- ICBM launch was discussed
Korea’s advancement of seized with fear.” She said it will face a more fatal se- day’s test involved its most at the Security Council is
its weapons programs. North Korea would con- curity crisis,” she said in a powerful Hwasong-17 mis- “evidently the application
Kim Yo Jong, who is widely sider the U.S.-led statement statement carried by state sile, and some experts say of double-standards” by
considered North Korea’s “a wanton violation of our media. Monday’s U.N. Se- the successful steep-angle the U.N. body because it
second most powerful per- sovereignty and a grave curity Council meeting was launch proved its potential “turned blind eyes” to the
son after her brother, lam- political provocation.” “The convened in response to to strike anywhere in the U.S.-South Korean military
basted the United States for U.S. should be mindful that North Korea’s ICBM launch U.S. mainland if it’s fired at drills. She said North Korea
issuing what she called “a no matter how desperately on Friday, which was part of a standard trajectory. won’t tolerate any attempt
disgusting joint statement it may seek to disarm (North a provocative run of missile During the Security Council to undermine its right to
together with such rabbles Korea), it can never deprive tests this year that experts meeting, the United States self-defense and will take
as Britain, France, Australia, (North Korea) of its right to say is designed to mod- and its allies strongly criti- “the toughest counterac-
Japan and South Korea.” self-defense and that the ernize its nuclear arsenal cized the ICBM launch and tion to the last” to protect
Kim compared the United more hell-bent it gets on and increase its leverage called for action to limit its national security. q

Dominican Republic rejects criticism of Haitian deportations

By MEGAN JANETSKY The government’s actions that the government’s ac- what it said was a lack of made about our country,”
Associated Press have sparked heavy criti- tions could pose a problem international support to the ministry wrote, “much
HAVANA (AP) — The Do- cism in recent weeks from for darker-skinned Ameri- handle the migration from less from an ally that has
minican Republic said it Haiti, the U.N. human rights cans and African Ameri- Haiti. been subject to accusa-
“profusely rejects” criticism chief and the United States. cans traveling in the Do- “The Dominican govern- tions of xenophobic and
of its crackdown on Haitian On Saturday, the U.S. Em- minican Republic. ment never could have racist treatment of mi-
migrants from a growing bassy in the capital of Unlike the U.N. and Haiti, imagined there would be grants, including in parts of
number of countries and Santo Domingo sent out a however, the U.S. did not such a harsh insinuation its own population.”q
human rights agencies. warning saying Dominican explicitly call for the country
Dominican authorities migration authorities “have to halt deportations. Presi-
have ramped up border carried out widespread op- dent Joe Biden’s admin-
enforcement and depor- erations” to detain largely istration has defended its
tations of Haitians, saying Haitian migrants who they own practice of deporting
such actions are crucial believe are in the country and expelling Haitian mi-
to national security amid illegally. grants arriving at its south-
intensifying turmoil in the “There are reports that de- ern border, despite heavy
neighboring country due tainees are held in over- criticism from human rights
to a gang blockade of crowded detention cen- organizations.
fuel supplies and a cholera ters, without the ability to The Dominican Ministry of
outbreak.Authorities say challenge their detention Foreign Relations lashed
they deported 43,900 mi- and without access to back at the criticism on
grants, largely Haitians, be- food or toilets, sometimes Sunday, saying the Ameri-
tween July and October. In for days, before being re- can government had “no
September and October leased or deported to Hai- evidence” of any sort of Haitians wait to cross the border between Dominican Republic
alone, deportation figures ti,” the Embassy wrote. systematic human rights and Haiti in Dajabon, Dominican Republic, Friday, Nov. 19, 2021.
shot up by about 50%. The Embassy also warned violations. It also decried Associated Press