The United Nations Security Council convenes an urgent meeting of member nations following North Korea’s latest missile launch.
In a rare move, the North Korean government is asking for the opportunity to speak at the council meeting.
North Korea Wednesday fired a submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missile towards the East Sea, rekindling ongoing tensions in the region.
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The news comes just days after the Hermit Nation promised “shocking” consequences for protesting what it called provocative US reconnaissance activity near its territory.
South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff announced in a statement that they detected the launch of a ballistic missile near the northern capital, Pyongyang.
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Now, the government of the nation would like to address the UN Security Council itself.
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The address to the Security Council will be the first such speech by a North Korean representative in about a decade.
The South Korean government has confirmed that a representative from its own country will attend the meeting as an observer member.
The North Korean representative is likely to raise longstanding grievances with the US military presence in the region – an activity which the communist country says has exceeded its limits.
Kim Yo Jong, who is the sister of North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un, has accused the United States of sending spy planes over the North’s Exclusive Economic Zone, the area within 200 nautical miles of its territory where they control the rights to natural resources.
Kim Yo Jong said a US spy plane crossed the eastern maritime border between the Koreas around 5 a.m. Monday and conducted reconnaissance over the northern exclusive economic zone before being chased by North Korean warplanes.
She also said the US plane crossed the eastern sea border again around 8:50 a.m., prompting the North Korean military to issue an unspecified “strong warning” to the United States.
Fox News Digital’s Sarah Rumpf-Whitten contributed to this report.