North Korea has held its first intercontinental ballistic missile test in five months, South Korea has said.
South Korea’s military said the missile flew about 1,000 kilometers (620 miles) before landing between the Korean Peninsula and Japan.
The UK Minister for the Indo-Pacific, Anne-Marie Trevelyan has responded to the North Korea missile tests: “The UK condemns the latest launches of an Intercontinental ballistic missile on 18 December and a short range ballistic missile on 17 December by North Korea; these actions clearly breach multiple UN Security Resolutions.”
The minister added: “This repeated escalation of testing is deeply damaging for regional stability and further destabilises the peace and security of the Korean Peninsula.”
Minister Anne-Marie Trevelyan added: “The UK strongly urges North Korea to refrain from illegal launches, return to dialogue swiftly and to abandon its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.”
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