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U.S. proposes U.N. statement condemning North Korea missile launch

30 August 2017 01:28 (UTC +04:00)

The United States has proposed that the U.N. Security Council on Tuesday agree on a statement condemning North Korea’s ballistic missile launch and imploring “all states to strictly, fully and expeditiously implement” United Nations sanctions on Pyongyang, APA reports quoting Reuters.

The draft statement, seen by Reuters, would need to be agreed by a consensus by the 15-member council, which was meeting to discuss North Korea’s firing of a missile over northern Japan earlier on Tuesday.

It would condemn North Korea “for its outrageous actions and threats against another U.N. member state, and demands that the DPRK immediately cease all such actions.”

North Korea is also known as the DPRK.