The G7 nations denounced North Korea’s “irresponsible” launch of a new ICBM on Sunday, urging the United Nations Security Council to take “significant” new steps to end North Korea’s tests.
Foreign ministers from the Group of Seven said North Korea’s repeated missile attacks “further destabilize the region, despite the international community’s calls for peace and stability.”
The missile Pyongyang tested on Friday appears to be its newest ICBM, the potential range of which would allow it to reach the US mainland.
“Monster Missile”
The G7 statement calls for “a united and strong response from the international community, including the need for the UN Security Council to take further meaningful action.”
The G7 includes Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Great Britain, and the United States. A representative of the European Union joined the statement.
Since early November, North Korea has tested a record number of missiles, including a ballistic missile that fell in Japan’s exclusive economic zone west of Hokkaido on Friday.
The North Korean state agency KCNA said it was a Hwasong-17 type intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), dubbed a “monster missile” by military experts.
The G7 statement reiterated demands that North Korea’s nuclear program must be verifiably dismantled, adding that the lone nation “will never have the status of a nuclear state.”
Source: BFM TV
