The United States has requested a meeting of the United Nations Security Council on February 3 in connection with the launch of a ballistic missile by North Korea. It is reported by RIA Novosti with reference to a source in the Security Council.
“The meeting on North Korea has been requested by the United States for Thursday,” the source said.
On January 30, the Yonhap News Agency, citing South Korea's Joint Chiefs of Staff, reported that North Korea had fired an intermediate-range ballistic missile into the Sea of Japan. It flew about 800 kilometers at a maximum altitude of 2,000 kilometers and reached a maximum speed of Mach 16, which is 16 times the speed of sound, and is similar to the speed of the Hwaseong-12 rocket that the DPRK tested in 2017.
The South Korean military suggests that the launch was carried out from the area of Chagang Province. This is the largest weapons test by North Korea since the launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile in November 2017.
As early as January 20, Pyongyang issued a thinly veiled threat to lift the moratorium on nuclear testing and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles, which the DPRK voluntarily announced at the end of 2017.
The US Indo-Pacific Command condemned the launch and called on North Korea to refrain from "further destabilizing actions."
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