The United States government urged North Korea on Monday to cease its “illegal and destabilizing” activities, after Pionyang fired two short-range ballistic missiles in its fourth launch of the year.
In a statement, the State Department reported the call between the United States special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, the director general of Asian Affairs of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Funakoshi Takehiro, and the Special Representative for Peace on the Korean Peninsula of the Government of South Korea, Noh Kyu-duk.
The call was convened after learning of the latest North Korean missile test.
The US representative expressed concern about these launches, which the Department of State “violates multiple United Nations resolutions.”
And called on Pyongyang to “cease its activities illegal and destabilizing” and commits to diplomatic “dialogue”.
A dialogue to which, the State Department reminds, the United States is willing without prior conditions.
North Korea today fired two short-range ballistic missiles in its fourth launch of the year, just days after threatening to harden its stance over the US hostility and in line with the promised strengthening of its arsenal.
According to South Korean and US intelligence analyses, the projectiles flew about 380 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 42 km before falling into the sea, data that coincides with the estimates of the Japanese armed forces, which also monitor North Korean weapons activity by the proximity to its territory.
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