Kim’s sister vows another attempt to launch spy satellite

Kim Yo Jong. Pic/AP

The influential sister of North Korean leader Kim Jong Un vowed again Sunday to push for a second attempt to launch a spy satellite as she lambasted a U.N. Security Council meeting over the North's first, failed launch.

The North's attempt to put its first military spy satellite into orbit last Wednesday failed as its rocket crashed off the Korean Peninsula's western coast. An emergency meeting of the U.N. Security Council was convened at the request of the U.S., Japan and other countries to discuss the launch because it violated council resolutions banning the North from performing any launch using ballistic technology.

On Sunday, Kim's sister and senior ruling party official, Kim Yo Jong, called the U.N. council "a political appendage" of the United States, saying its recent meeting was convened following America's "gangster-like request."

She said her country's attempt to acquire a spy satellite is a legitimate step to respond to military threats posed by the U.S. and its allies. "(North Korea) will continue to take proactive measures to exercise all the lawful rights of a sovereign state, including the one to a military reconnaissance satellite launch," Jong said.

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