UK Condemns North Korea’s Ballistic Missile Launch
Sudan Events – Sumaya Sayed
The United Kingdom on Tuesday condemned North Korea’s most recent ballistic missile launch, calling it a “clear breach” of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.
“This repeated cycle of testing is deeply damaging for regional stability and further threatens peace and security in the Korean Peninsula,” a UK Foreign Office spokesperson said in a statement.
Britain strongly urges North Korea “to refrain from illegal launches, swiftly return to dialogue and abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner,” it added.
South Korea and Japan said Sunday that North Korea launched an intermediate-range class ballistic missile, the first such missile fire this year, saying it flew around 1,000 kilometres (621 miles) before landing in waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
Later, North Korea said it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) “loaded with a hypersonic manoeuvrable controlled warhead,” saying the launch “never affected the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the regional situation.”
The launch reportedly marked the first-ever test of a solid-fuel hypersonic IRBM.
