North Korea has been given temporary control over the United Nations forum on nuclear disarmament, causing tempers to explode from other nations that point to the hermit nation's testing of nuclear missiles.
The country has temporarily taken over the U.N.'s Conference on Disarmament in Geneva, an event that gathers three times a year, as part of the governing body's tradition of rotating its presidency among members. But the decision to turn its leadership over to North Korea, which continues to test missiles, was blasted by other member states.
“It certainly does call that into question when you have a regime like the DPRK in a senior leadership post, a regime that has done as much as any other government around the world to erode the non-proliferation norm,” U.S. State Department spokesman Ned Price added.While 50 countries expressed concerns about Pyongyang's role in leadership, none walked out of the room in protest, a typical gesture at the U.N. when opposing a participating nation's presentation or arguments.
"My country is still at war with the United States," said North Korean ambassador Han Tae Song as she took over the helm of the conference.
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