North Korea (Washington Insider Magazine) – The G7 condemned this Sunday the launch by North Korea of a short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan and pointed out that it demands a rapid response from the international community.
The G7 condemned this Sunday the launch by North Korea of a short-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan and pointed out that it demands a rapid response from the international community.
“North Korea’s reckless behavior demands a swift and unified response from the international community, including significant new steps by the United Nations Security Council,” the foreign ministers of the US, Germany, Canada, France, Italy said in a statement. , Japan and the UK.
Along with the high representative of the EU, they criticized the “stark contrast between the frequency of repeated and flagrant violations” of UN Security Council resolutions by North Korea and the “corresponding inaction” of that Council due to to the “obstruction” of some of its members.
This latest North Korean launch, they added, “undermines regional and international peace and security.”
Pyongyang’s new test comes after North Korea launched a new type of intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Thursday.
The G7 representatives stressed that since last year it has carried out a record number of ballistic missile launches and has increased tension with its “continued irresponsible and destabilizing rhetoric on the use of nuclear weapons.”
At the beginning of 2023, as they recalled, the country publicly declared its intention to continue expanding and improving “its illegal nuclear and missile programs.”
“We reiterate our demand that it abandon its nuclear weapons, existing nuclear programs and any other weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner,” they said.
The G7 urged it to fulfill its obligations under the relevant United Nations Security Council (UNSCR) resolutions and called on all UN States to effectively implement those resolutions.
“North Korea cannot and will never have the status of a nuclear-weapon state in accordance with the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons,” the foreign ministers stressed.
This article is originally authored by EFE.
