The resolutions ban North Korea from conducting ballistic missile launches. In Tokyo, Japanese Prime Minister Fumio Kishida condemned the latest missile launch by North Korea, accusing Pyongyang of violating UN Security Council resolutions.
In response, Pyongyang fired missiles twice on Wednesday and Saturday and threatened with pre-emptive strikes, triggering sharp response from Seoul, which warned of “ending the regime” in North Korea over such a move. Last week, it was first time that a nuclear-powered US submarine, USS Kentucky, visited Busan port in South Korea since 1981. Missile launches came after the second US nuclear-powered submarine, USS Annapolis, made a port call at a naval base on southern island of Jeju in South Korea on Monday. (1455GMT) on the 24th and at midnight of the 25th,” Yonhap News Agency quoted South Korea’s Joint Chiefs of Staff as saying. “Our military detected two ballistic missiles North Korea fired from areas near Pyongyang into the East Sea at 11:55 p.m. The event was held at the University of California San Diego on Monday when North Korea fired two ballistic missiles into the East Sea.
Pyongyang last attended the meeting in 2016 and was represented by Choe Son-hui, now serving as the foreign minister. The forum brings together government representatives and civilian experts from the two Koreas, the US, China, Japan and Russia. Pyongyang did not attend the annual Northeast Asia Cooperation Dialogue (NEACD), also referred to as a Track 1.5 security forum. North Korea once again chose not to participate in a multi-lateral security forum amid fresh missile launches, triggering condemnation from South Korea and Japan.
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