 SEOUL, May 4 (Yonhap) -- North Korea on Monday accused the United Nations of being unfair to countries not aligned with the United States, citing its condemnation of Pyongyang's April 5 rocket launch as evidence.
Pyongyang withdrew from six-nation nuclear disarmament talks in protest of the U.N. Security Council's rebuke of the launch. The North also said it would conduct a second nuclear test and has begun reprocessing spent nuclear fuel rods, a process which extracts plutonium used to make nuclear bombs. North Korea tested unsuccessfully its first nuclear device in 2006.
| The Norks no doubt figure that their latest temper tantrum will provoke new concessions from the West. They're likely to be right. |
The Security Council "continues to adopt unjust documents under U.S. instigation," and its April 13 presidential statement condemning the North Korean launch is "obvious evidence" of its unfairness, the Rodong Sinmun, a major newspaper published by the Workers' Party, said in a commentary carried by the Korean Central News Agency.
The Security Council's sanctions committee froze foreign assets of three firms in North Korea suspected of financing the country's nuclear and missile activities.
| And froze the cognac supply ... |
The paper noted the Security Council has never taken issue with a satellite launch and blasted its punishment of North Korea's as an "unfair, extreme application of double standards and an act of despotism."
| They're going to keep pretending that they launched a satellite. |
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