Accompanied by protests from several countries, North Korea assumed the rotating presidency of the Conference on Disarmament. Some 50 member states of the UN conference yesterday expressed their outrage at the prospect of the unpredictable nuclear-armed North Korea being chosen to chair the world’s most important multilateral disarmament forum in the next three weeks.
The US, European Union, Britain, Australia and South Korea took the opportunity to criticize Pyongyang for its numerous missile tests and fear preparations for another nuclear test. “
North Korea last tested nuclear weapons in 2017. Since the beginning of the year, the military has conducted a series of missile tests, believed to include several for ICBMs.