Kim Gunn, head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiations Headquarters at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs, and Sung Kim, US special representative for North Korea [외교부 제공]
South Korea’s chief negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue, Kim Gunn, head of the Korean Peninsula Peace Negotiation Headquarters, held a telephone call today with the US Special Representative for North Korea Seong Kim, the United States and Japan’s chief negotiator on the North Korean nuclear issue, and Funakoshi Takehiro, director general of the Asia and Oceania Bureau of the Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs, respectively, and the launch of North Korea’s intercontinental ballistic missile. The United Nations Security Council has said that it must respond clearly.
The main representatives of the three countries strongly condemned North Korea’s launch of an ICBM a day after the launch of a short-range ballistic missile yesterday, despite repeated warnings from the international community, which is a serious threat to peace and stability in the region and the international community as a whole.
At the same time, it was agreed that the Security Council should unite and respond clearly to North Korea’s illegal provocations, as North Korea’s ICBM launch clearly violates a number of UN Security Council resolutions.
They also emphasized that North Korea’s provocations only lead to the suspension of the ROK-US alliance against North Korea and the strengthening of South Korea-US-Japan security cooperation, and the more North Korea repeats its provocations, the more united the international community. to respond decisively.
The main representatives of the three countries decided to continue to strengthen bilateral and trilateral cooperation for a firm and united response by the international community, including at the level of the Security Council, while thoroughly preparing for the possibility of additional provocations by North Korea.
Following yesterday’s launch of a short-range ballistic missile for the first time in eight days, North Korea fired an intercontinental ballistic missile believed to be the ‘Hwasong-17’ into the East Sea today.
