South Korea, US, Japan condemn North Korea's provocative actions
(Baonghean.vn) - During a phone call on the morning of October 6, nuclear envoys from South Korea, the United States and Japan strongly condemned North Korea's recent repeated provocative actions, Seoul's Foreign Ministry said.
According to information from the South Korean military, North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from near Pyongyang toward the Sea of Japan between 6:01 and 6:23 a.m. on October 6. This was Pyongyang's sixth launch since late September. This provocation came just two days after the launch of a medium-range ballistic missile over Japanese airspace on October 4.
Kim Gunn, South Korea's Special Representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, and his US counterpart Sung Kim expressed "grave concern" over the launch. They called on North Korea to immediately stop its provocative actions and condemned the latest ballistic missile launch as a violation of multiple UN Security Council resolutions.
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| Mr. Kim Gunn, Special Representative of South Korea for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs, with his two US and Japanese counterparts - Sung Kim and Takehiro Funakoshi. Photo: Yonhap |
The South Korean envoy also held separate phone talks with his Japanese counterpart Takehiro Funakoshi. The three envoys agreed to strengthen bilateral and trilateral cooperation to sternly respond to North Korea's nuclear and missile threats.