Monitoring Desk
NEW YORK: UN chief Antonio Guterres has denounced North Korea’s weekend launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile and asked Pyongyang to end “provocative actions,”.
Antonio Guterres’s spokesperson said on Sunday that the UN Secretary-General strongly condemned the launch of yet another missile by North Korea.
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The spokesperson further said that Guterres reiterated a call for North Korea “to immediately cease from taking any further provocative acts.”
Earlier, military officials of South Korea said that North Korea launched an indefinite ballistic missile. North Korea fired the missile following joint air exercise of South Korea and the US.
The US held air exercises bilaterally with Japan, and South Korea. South Korean Joint Chiefs of Staff said that the air exercise showed the allies defense readiness.
