On the day NATO meets in Brussels, North Korea tested an ICBM, South Korean President Moon Jae-in said, expressing disappointment at the end of the National Security Council meeting, "for the violation of Pyongyang's self-imposed moratorium "on tests and UN resolutions.
The missile, launched by Sunan, at the gates of Pyongyang at 14.34 (local time) would have fallen about 170 km off the coast of Aomori, in the Japanese exclusive economic zone (Zee) and would have covered the distance with a maximum altitude of over 6,200 km , equal to the most powerful launch made by the state since 2017.
This is a "violation of the suspension of ICBM launches promised by President Kim Jong-un to the international community - Moon said in a note released by the Presidential Office - which poses a serious threat to the Korean peninsula, the region and the international community. And it is a clear violation of the resolutions of the United Nations Security Council. "
Pyongyang had officially suspended long-range missile tests as a gesture of detente towards the US administration of Donald Trump, when the tycoon and the supreme leader were about to start in 2018 the high-level negotiations on the nuclear dossier that failed in 2019.
Meanwhile, South Korea has carried out a cycle of "strategic" missile launches from land, sea and air in
response to North Korea's ICBM test.
(Unioneonline / ss)
