The United Nations’ Security Council needs to take “significant measures” in response to the latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch by North Korea, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7) major industrialized nations said on Sunday.
The Security Council is set to discuss North Korea in a meeting on Monday at the request of the United States, following the latest in a series of missile test launches this year.
“[North Korea’s] actions demand a united and robust response by the international community,” the ministers of the United States, Japan, Canada, Germany, Britain, France and Italy said.
Pyongyang tested on Friday a ballistic missile capable of reaching the U.S. mainland shortly after warning of “fiercer military responses” to Washington beefing up its security presence in the region.
The G-7 statement said Friday’s test was a “reckless act” and “another blatant violation” of U.N. resolutions.
“The unprecedented series of unlawful ballistic missile launches conducted by [North Korea] in 2022… pose a serious threat to regional and international peace and security,” the G-7 statement said, adding that the country “cannot and will never have the status of a nuclear-weapon state.”
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