G7 foreign ministers condemn North Korea’s launch of a ballistic missile

July 13 (EUROPA PRESS) –

The G7 foreign ministers have condemned this Thursday in a joint statement the latest launch on Wednesday of a ‘Hwasong-18’ intercontinental ballistic missile by North Korea.

“North Korea continues to expand its illegal nuclear and ballistic capabilities and intensify destabilizing actions. Such launches pose a serious threat to regional and international peace and stability, and also undermine the non-proliferation regime,” the ministers said in a statement. joint statement.

Thus, they have described these launches as “flagrant violations of the United Nations Security Council resolutions, which prohibit the country from carrying out any type of launch that uses its own ballistic missile technology.”

In this sense, they have once again asked the North Korean authorities to “abandon their nuclear weapons, their existing programs and any other weapons of mass destruction”, always in a “verifiable and definitive” manner.

“We call for a swift, strong and unified response from the UN Security Council. (…) We call on all UN member states to fully and effectively implement all resolutions and urge the members to fulfill their commitments”, the text collects.

In addition, they have stressed that “giving priority to their illegal weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs over the well-being of the North Korean people is aggravating the already dire humanitarian situation.”

“We call on North Korea to engage in meaningful diplomacy and accept the repeated proposals for dialogue put forward by Japan, the United States, and South Korea,” they said.