G7 demands tougher sanctions on NKorea after latest salvo, The G7 nations demanded that the UN Security Council take additional “significant” action to stop the tests after North Korea launched another intercontinental ballistic missile on Sunday. They denounced the launch as “reckless.” The repeated missile launches by North Korea, according to foreign ministers from the Group of Seven countries, “further destabilize the region, despite calls from the international community for peace and stability.”
G7 demands tougher sanctions on NKorea after latest salvo
North Korea tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) on Friday that had the capacity to reach the US mainland. A united and forceful response from the international community was urged in the G7 statement, along with the requirement that the UN Security Council take additional meaningful action.
Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the United Kingdom, and the United States make up the G7. The declaration was later joined by a representative of the European Union. North Korea is thought to have launched 30 short-, medium-, and long-range missiles so far this month, including the launch on Friday that landed in Japan’s exclusive economic zone to the west of Hokkaido.
North Korean state news agency KCNA claimed that the missile fired Friday was a Hwasong-17, its latest variant and one it asserted is “the strongest strategic weapon in the world.” KCNA said North Korean leader Kim Jong Un witnessed the latest launch in the company of his daughter.
In October, there were several test launches, one of which involved what appeared to be an ICBM and flew over and beyond Japan, setting off alarm sirens in northern Japan. In comparison to previous years, North Korea has launched more missiles in 2022. Since 2006, the UN Security Council has adopted about a dozen resolutions that impose sanctions on North Korea because of its nuclear and missile development.
Between 2006 and 2017, North Korea conducted six nuclear bomb tests, and it has promised to never abandon its nuclear program. The G7 statement stated that North Korea “will never have the status of a nuclear-weapon state” and reiterated demands that its nuclear program be verifiably destroyed.