North Korea Fires Back with Letter to UN Security Council President, Claims Mine Blast Was Staged by South Korea

[Financial News] North Korea sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council, claiming that the explosion of a North Korean military land mine in the Korean Demilitarized Zone (DMZ) was staged by South Korea. The move appears to be a response to a letter South Korea’s Foreign Ministry sent to the UN Security Council president on the 22nd, calling on the council to hold North Korea responsible for the explosion of a North Korean military land mine.
On the 26th, the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported that North Korea had sent a letter to the president of the UN Security Council on the 25th regarding the landmine explosion that occurred on the 21st of last month.
In the letter, North Korea claimed, “The so-called ‘landmine explosion incident’ fabricated by South Korea is a sinister scheme to delay and obstruct the fortification of the southern border of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) by vilifying it as a ‘military invasion,’ and nothing more than a self-staged provocation to evade responsibility for the worsening situation on the Korean Peninsula.”
North Korea also protested, saying, “South Korea does not hesitate to engage in extremely reckless provocative acts, including carrying out firing activities that seriously threaten the lives and safety of our soldiers deployed for the border fortification project.” It claimed that this violated Article 2, Paragraph 4, of the UN Charter.
It further insisted, “If the Republic of Korea encroaches even 1 mm on our country’s territory or carries out a direct provocative act that endangers the safety or lives of our personnel, the DPRK has the legitimate right to exercise its right to self-defense as set out in Article 51 of the UN Charter.”
It also threatened that, if North Korea’s sovereignty and territorial integrity were violated, the Republic of Korea would bear full responsibility for all the consequences.


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