NORTH KOREA: North Korea warned the UN Security Council yesterday against doing Washington's bidding, urging it to be impartial in judging whether Pyongyang posed a nuclear threat.
"It can be said that now the United Nations is at the crossroads of whether it will maintain the international order led by the United Nations or give way to the establishment of dangerous world order led by an individual country," North Korea's Foreign Minister, Mr Paek Nam-sun, said in a letter to the council.
The letter was sent a week after the US launched its second attempt this year to persuade the council to adopt a statement condemning North Korea for reviving its nuclear programme.
A draft statement circulated by Washington would call on Pyongyang "to immediately and completely dismantle its nuclear weapons programme in a verifiable and irreversible manner" and fully comply with international nuclear safeguards.
China and Russia blocked a US effort in April to persuade the council to condemn North Korea.