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G7 Calls for 'Significant' UN Response to North Korea Missile Launches

by Reuters

   Rome --

   The United Nations' Security Council needs to take "significant
   measures" in response to the latest intercontinental ballistic missile
   launch by North Korea, foreign ministers of the Group of Seven (G-7)
   major industrialized nations said on Sunday.

   The Security Council is set to discuss North Korea in a meeting on
   Monday at the request of the United States, following the latest in a
   series of missile test launches this year.

   "[North Korea's] actions demand a united and robust response by the
   international community," the ministers of the United States, Japan,
   Canada, Germany, Britain, France and Italy said.

   Pyongyang tested on Friday a ballistic missile capable of reaching the
   U.S. mainland shortly after warning of "fiercer military responses" to
   Washington beefing up its security presence in the region.

   The G-7 statement said Friday's test was a "reckless act" and "another
   blatant violation" of U.N. resolutions.

   "The unprecedented series of unlawful ballistic missile launches
   conducted by [North Korea] in 2022... pose a serious threat to regional
   and international peace and security," the G-7 statement said, adding
   that the country "cannot and will never have the status of a
   nuclear-weapon state."