North Korea calls UN’s Guterres ‘puppet of U.S.’ after criticism of launch


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An intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) is launched in this undated photo released on Nov. 19 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA).KCNA/Reuters North Korea’s foreign minister called U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres “a puppet of the United States” as she slammed the U.N. chief for joining U.S.-led condemnation of the North’s recent intercontinental ballistic missile test. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres earlier issued a statement strongly condemning North Korea’s ICBM launch on Friday and reiterating his call on the North to “to immediately desist from taking any further provocative actions.” Guterres’s statement came after the United States and other countries issued...