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• (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)ASSOCIATED PRESSNorth Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song leaves a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters.
• The last sanctions resolution was adopted by the council in December 2017, and China and Russia vetoed a U.S.-sponsored resolution in May 2022 that would have imposed new sanctions over a spate of intercontinental ballistic missile launches.
• (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)ASSOCIATED PRESSSouth Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Hwang Joon-kook, left, listens as North Korean Ambassador Kim Song addresses a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023 at United Nations headquarters.
• (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)ASSOCIATED PRESSNorth Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song is seen on a translator’s video screen as he addresses a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023 at United Nations headquarters.
• In a statement carried by state media, Kim Yo Jong called the council “a new Cold War mechanism totally inclined to the U.S. and the West.”She also warned that the United States would pay a price for its hostility toward the North.
• (AP Photo/Mary Altaffer)ASSOCIATED PRESSNorth Korean Ambassador to the United Nations Kim Song talks on his phone after leaving a Security Council meeting on Non-proliferation/North Korea, Thursday, July 13, 2023, at United Nations headquarters.