Beijing urges calm after call for NK鈥檚 UN suspension
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CHINA urged calm and restraint yesterday after South Korea called for the possible suspension of North Korea’s seat at the United Nations to punish its neighbor for using chemical weapons to kill the half-brother of its leader.
Malaysian police have said two women smeared VX nerve agent, a chemical on a UN list of banned weapons of mass destruction, on Kim Jong Nam’s face at the Malaysian capital’s airport on February 13.
American and South Korean officials believe Kim Jong Nam was the victim of an assassination orchestrated by North Korea, which said on Tuesday it “categorically rejects” what it call “fictitious assumptions.”
Speaking at the UN-backed Conference on Disarmament in Geneva on Tuesday, South Korean Foreign Minister Yun Byung-se said the use of chemical weapons was a “wake-up call” and the international community should act — including possibly suspending North’s seat at the UN.
Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Geng Shuang said “we hope all sides can maintain calm and exercise restraint and not do anything to irritate each other or that may raise regional tensions.”
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