North Korea defends ICBM launch in rare U.N. Security Council appearance

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Kim Song, North Korean envoy to the United Nations, addressed the Security Council Thursday and defended the regime's latest ICBM launch. File Photo by Manuel Elías/UN July 14 (UPI) -- In a rare appearance before the U.N. Security Council, a North Korean envoy defended the regime's latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch, claiming it was an exercise in self-defense and blaming the United States and its allies for provoking tensions on the Peninsula. The Security Council convened an emergency meeting Thursday, one day after North Korea test-fired its Hwasong-18 ICBM, a new solid-fuel missile that analysts have said is more maneuverable...