This undated picture released from North Korea’s official Korean Central News Agency on June 30, 2014 shows launching of a tactical rocket during a firing drill by the Korean People’s Army Strategic Force at an undisclosed place in North Korea. North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un inspected the drill. AFP PHOTO / KCNA via KNS REPUBLIC OF KOREA OUT
Members of the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), one of the largest security forums in the Asia-Pacific region, have raised concerns over North Korea’s latest nuclear, rocket and ballistic missile tests.
A statement issued in the Laotian capital of Vientiane by ARF Chairman Saleumxay Kommasith to wrap up a 26 July meeting between representatives of the forum’s 27 participating nations – including the 10 members of the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN), the EU and other regional powers – said “the ministers shared concern over current developments in the Korean Peninsula”.
These developments included North Korea’s nuclear test on 6 January, its rocket launch on 7 February and its ballistic missile launch on 9 July, “all of which are in violation of the UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions”.
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