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Foreign Office statement following North Korea missile tests - 20 March 2020

The FCO comments on the sixteenth ballistic missile test carried out by North Korea in the past year, and the third time in March.

• From: Foreign & Commonwealth Office
• Published: 22 March 2020

This was published under the 2019 to 2022 Johnson Conservative government

A Foreign and Commonwealth Office spokesperson said:

We are disappointed that North Korea has carried out a short range ballistic missile launch, a clear breach of UN Security Council resolutions and the sixteenth ballistic missile test in the past year. We call for the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of the DPRK. Until we see credible steps towards this goal, sanctions must continue to be enforced.

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Published 22 March 2020