The UN Security Council is set to meet today, the day after North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with which Pyongyang ended a moratorium it had unilaterally declared in 2017-2018 and has been implementing until now.
The United Nations “strongly condemned” this test yesterday, through its Secretary-General Antonio Guterres. The United States, the United Kingdom, France, Albania, Ireland and Norway have requested a meeting of the Security Council. It will start at 15:00 (New York time; 21:00 Greek time), diplomatic sources clarified.
“The launch of this long-range missile increases the risk of escalation of tensions in the region. The Secretary-General calls on the DPRK to refrain from further counterproductive actions,” said Guterres spokesman Stefan Duzarik.
Mr Guterres “reaffirms his commitment to work with all parties to find a peaceful and diplomatic solution to the full and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula,” he added.
North Korea launched an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that crashed inside the Japanese EEZ on Thursday. South Korean President Moon Jae-in later confirmed that the missile fired from Pyongyang eastward into the Korean Sea – or Sea of ​​Japan – was indeed an ICBM.
North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has maintained a moratorium on missile launches of this type from the end of 2017 until yesterday. At the end of November of that year, they tested a new type of ICBM, the Hwasong-15, which can carry an “extremely large head” and is capable of hitting the entire continental United States.
Like its predecessor, the Hwasong-14, this ICBM was designed to carry nuclear warheads.
At the time, Kim Jong Un declared his country a nuclear power.
In late April 2018, Kim Jong Un formalized the moratorium on nuclear weapons tests and long-range ballistic missile launches, assuring that the goals of their development programs had now been achieved.
Source: AMPE
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