The European Union urged North Korea to stop stoking “military tensions” in the region, after the latest ballistic missile launch and drone incursions outside its borders by Pyongyang.
The EU’s Foreign Affairs Department stated, on its official website, that Pyongyang’s continued violation of UN Security Council resolutions and recent statements indicating that it intends to continue with such illegal actions do not help the North Korean people.
North Korea launched three new short-range ballistic missiles into the Sea of Japan, also known as the East Sea, on Saturday morning, a day after Seoul successfully conducted a solid-fuel space launch.
The North Korean firings also followed the incursion with five ‘drones’ (unmanned flying devices) in South Korean airspace earlier in the week.
Including its statement, the EU called on Pyongyang to follow the path of complete and irreversible denuclearization.
South Korean military stated that the North had fired ballistic missiles over the Sea of Japan towards the east of the Korean Peninsula in the early hours of yesterday morning local time.
This step came less than 24 hours after North Korea launched three ballistic missiles.
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