North Korea's unsuccessful attempts to launch a spy satellite and who is to blame for the rise in tensions on the Korean Peninsula were the topics of a dispute between the United States and its allies and North Korea, Russia, and China on Friday. For the second time since 2017, North Korea's UN ambassador attended the open Security Council meeting that was called by the US, Albania, Ecuador, France, Japan, and Malta to denounce the attempted launch that used prohibited ballistic missile technology.