Anchor: The United Nations Security Council appears to be further divided over the Russia-Ukraine war. With less than two months remaining before Donald Trump returns to the Oval Office, an emergency UNSC session was held in New York, where the U.S. and its allies had a heated exchange of words with Russia and North Korea about the intensifying war.
Kim Bum-soo has more. 

Report: With less than two months left until the second Donald Trump administration takes power in the U.S., the Russia-Ukraine conflict is ramping up on both the diplomatic and military fronts. 

[Sound bite: Robert Wood - US Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN] 
“The United States stands with the community of nations in support of Ukraine ...”

At the emergency UN Security Council session Wednesday, the U.S. and its partners blamed Russia and North Korea for the intensifying Russia-Ukraine war.
 
[Sound bite: US Deputy Permanent Representative to the UN Robert Wood] 
“And my last point is just a question to the representative from the DPRK regime. It’s a very simple question, and I think this council would appreciate a very succinct answer. Has DPRK deployed troops to Russia?”

The envoy from Pyongyang gave a circuitous response in which he sought to defend his country’s deepening ties with Russia. 

[Sound bite: N. Korean Ambassador to the UN Kim Song] 
“It is the legitimate right of the DPRK to develop the relations with the Russian Federation. The treaty on comprehensive strategic partnership between the DPRK and Russian Federation fully conforms to international law and the UN Charter. Therefore, the DPRK will remain faithful to its obligation under that treaty.”

[Sound bite: Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya] 
“I am not going to comment on the pulp fiction by North Korea …” 

Speaking directly to his North Korean counterpart, who accused Western nations of “undermining peace,” the Ukrainian representative said the diplomat from Pyongyang represented “a criminal regime.”
 
[Sound bite: Ukrainian Ambassador to the UN Sergiy Kyslytsya] 
“I forced myself to stay in the chamber out of respect to this institution and out of the need to look in the eyes of the representative of the DPRK to tell him directly that he represents a criminal regime, that he represents the regime that helps another criminal regime, and that by the end of the day, sooner or later, you and your leadership will end up in the dark.”

The Russian representative said the bankrupt Zelenskyy regime is facing an irreversible and humiliating defeat.

In the wake of the deployment of North Korean troops to Russia, the outgoing Biden administration authorized Kyiv to attack inside Russia with U.S. missiles. 

In an apparent threat to use nuclear weapons against its enemy, Russia last week struck the central Ukrainian city of Dnipro with an advanced ballistic missile capable of carrying multiple warheads.  
Kim Bum-soo, KBS World Radio News.