SEOUL: North Korea's foreign minister called United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres "a puppet of the United States" in slamming him for joining US-led condemnation of the North's recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test.

This came after Guterres issued a statement strongly condemning the ICBM launch last Friday and reiterating his call on Pyongyang "to immediately desist from taking any further provocative actions."

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