“Satellite launch using ballistic missile technology, violation of Security Council sanctions”
Regarding North Korea’s launch of a projectile that it claimed was a military reconnaissance satellite on the 31st, the international community, including the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO), the European Union (EU), France and Ukraine, continued to condemn.
North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Secretary-General Jens Stoltenberg said in a statement on the website that day, “I strongly condemn the attempt to launch a military satellite using ballistic missile technology.”
Stoltenberg said, “This poses serious tensions and risks to the security of the region and beyond.”
“NATO urges North Korea to stop these provocations and return to dialogue so that a sustainable peace and complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula can be achieved,” Stoltenberg said. We will work together with Korea and Japan,” he emphasized.
The EU also raised its eyebrows at North Korea, saying it was “completely ignoring its obligations under UN Security Council resolutions.”
In addition, the EU declared that it would “voice and prove that such an act will never be tolerated” in the Security Council, which has permanent members of the United Nations (UN) and all member states of the United Nations, especially China and Russia.
In a statement posted on its website, the French Foreign Ministry said it strongly condemned North Korea’s attempt to launch a military reconnaissance satellite, calling it “an attempt in clear violation of a UN Security Council resolution.”
“A number of Security Council resolutions since 2006 have required North Korea not to conduct activities (including missile launches) related to missiles designed to carry nuclear weapons,” the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said. “The technology used to launch satellites and launch ballistic missiles is Because they are so similar, this launch directly contributes to the progress of North Korea’s already worrisome ballistic missile program.”
The Foreign Ministry then added that it urges North Korea to “immediately cease its destabilizing behavior, fulfill its obligations without delay, and return to the negotiating table as a follow-up to the (previous) proposal for dialogue.”
“France underscores its determination to pursue the goal of the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of North Korea,” the Foreign Ministry said. did.
Ukraine’s Foreign Ministry, which is fighting a Russian invasion, also condemned the North Korean launch attempt.
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs pointed out that “North Korea is once again destabilizing the situation in the region and violating international law.”
“For the security of the Korean Peninsula, Ukraine urges the international community to step up efforts to put pressure on North Korea,” he added.
Previously, North Korea’s National Space Development Agency officially acknowledged that it had launched a military reconnaissance satellite, ‘Malligyeong-1’, on a new satellite carrier rocket at 6:27 am on the same day, but crashed into the West Sea due to engine failure of the launch vehicle.
Military reconnaissance satellites are a key element of the nuclear force system, along with nuclear warheads and ballistic missiles to deliver them.
Source: Donga
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