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Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n The United Kingdom on Tuesday condemned North Korea\u2019s most recent ballistic missile launch, calling it a “clear breach” of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.<\/p>\n “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.<\/p>\n Britain strongly urges North Korea \u201cto 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.<\/p>\n 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.<\/p>\n Later, North Korea said it had successfully tested a solid-fuel intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) \u201cloaded with a hypersonic manoeuvrable controlled warhead,\u201d saying the launch \u201cnever affected the security of any neighbouring country and had nothing to do with the regional situation.”<\/p>\n The launch reportedly marked the first-ever test of a solid-fuel hypersonic IRBM.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Sudan Events \u2013 Sumaya Sayed\u00a0 The United Kingdom on Tuesday condemned North Korea\u2019s 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 …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":11607,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11606","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-international"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11606"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11608,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11606\/revisions\/11608"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/11607"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11606"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11606"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sudanevents.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11606"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}