News about North Korea, North Korea’s missiles: North Korea is in a “provocation” phase: US condemns missile tests

US Secretary of State Antony Blinken condemned North Korea’s missile tests.

Honolulu:

Top diplomats from Japan, South Korea and the United States declared their unification against North Korea on Saturday following a series of ballistic missile launches by Pyongyang.

After a day of meetings in Honolulu, US Secretary of State Antony Blinken, South Korean Foreign Minister Chung Eui-yong and Japanese Foreign Minister Hayashi Yoshimasa condemned the series of seven launches as “destabilizing” in a joint statement.

Pyongyang needs to “stop its illegal activities and engage in dialogue instead,” they said.

“North Korea is in a provocative phase,” Blinken told a news conference alongside his fellow foreign ministers, using the acronym for Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.

“We continue to work to find a way to hold North Korea accountable,” he said, citing the most recent sanctions that hit eight people and organizations with ties to the government. North Korea.

The three diplomats reiterated their commitment to the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and their readiness to resume negotiations with Pyongyang, which has not responded to statements from the Trump administration. US President Joe Biden in the past year.

“The Minister and the Foreign Ministers stressed that they have no intention of being hostile towards the DPRK and stressed the continued openness to meeting the DPRK without preconditions,” they said in the statement. .

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