UN, October 6. /TASS/. The UN Security Council will continue discussions next week on the situation regarding North Korea in the wake of Pyongyang’s recent series of missile launches, US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield told journalists.
The US diplomat pointed out to the necessity of all UN countries to observe the regime of sanctions in regard to Pyongyang and to stand for the resumption of negotiations on the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
North Korea was reported to conduct two ballistic missile tests earlier on Thursday. This was 24th missile test of North Korea since the start of the year with the previous test launch taking place on October 4.
North Korea launched a missile on Tuesday that flew above northern Japan’s Aomori prefecture and fell in the Pacific Ocean outside of Japan’s exclusive economic zone. It was the first North Korean missile flying above Japan’s territory since September 2017. The presumed travel distance of the ballistic missile - about 4,600 kilometers - is believed to be the largest in the history of North Korean tests. The missile fell about 3,200 km away from the Japanese coast.
In May, the United States put to a vote at the UN Security Council a resolution on another package of sanctions against Pyeongyang following North Korea’s reported missile test launches, but Russia and China used their right for veto to block it.