Pakistan Calls for Dialogue to Ease Tensions After North Korea’s Latest Missile Launch
Pakistan Calls for Dialogue to Ease Tensions After North Korea’s Latest Missile Launch
Pakistan has expressed its apprehension regarding North Korea’s most recent launch of a ballistic missile. According to the Associated Press of Pakistan, diplomatic engagement and dialogue are needed to resolve the obstacles that the Korean Peninsula is currently facing.
As US Secretary of State Antony Blinken visited South Korea on Monday, North Korea fired a missile. Blinken cautioned that Pyongyang was collaborating with Russia on advanced space technology in an increasingly intimate manner.Investigators were attempting to apprehend conservative President Yoon Suk Yeol, who has since retreated to his residence after being impeached for a failed attempt to impose martial law at the time of Blinken’s voyage.
Ambassador Munir Akram, Pakistan’s permanent representative to the United Nations, told the UN Security Council today, “We strongly support the calls for revival of talks among the relevant parties.” This statement was made two days after North Korea launched what Pyongyang had described as a new type of intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile (IRBM) equipped with a hypersonic glide vehicle.
Ambassador Akram characterized these developments as “detrimental to regional and international peace and security.”
He further stated that Pakistan supported the denuclearisation of the Korean Peninsula, the implementation of pertinent UN Security Council resolutions, and the objectives of global non-proliferation and disarmament.
“Provocations, such as missile tests, and coercive actions and threats, on the other hand, must be discontinued,” stated the Pakistani envoy.
“Pakistan is against any additional nuclear weapons testing in Korea or any other location.”
In this regard, Ambassador Akram urged all parties to exercise restraint and refrain from exacerbating existing tensions. He also encouraged the Security Council to consider the parties’ adoption of Confidence-Building Measures to reduce tensions.
He further stated that Pakistan is dedicated to supporting peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula by adhering to the framework established by the United Nations resolutions.
“We are optimistic that the Security Council will discover methods to rekindle the dialogue and fulfill its obligations in reducing tensions and threats to peace and security in the region.”
North Korea has been actively pursuing the acquisition of new military capabilities that threaten the global non-proliferation architecture, as a senior UN official cautioned during the opening of the debate.
Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, expressed regret that Pyongyang did not issue airspace or maritime safety notifications despite claiming that the launch had no adverse impact on the security of neighboring countries.
He stated that the system has the potential to “inflict a severe military strike on a rival by effectively breaching any of its dense defensive barriers,” as stated in the country’s official statement. He also noted that hypersonic glide vehicles travel at speed at least five times that of sound and execute evasive maneuvers, which renders defense measures against the weapon significantly more challenging.
For his part, North Korean Ambassador Song Kim emphasized that the test-fire of a new-type intermediate-range hypersonic ballistic missile is a component of the strategy to enhance the sustainability of the strategic deterrent in the region’s evolving security environment and to develop national defense capabilities. Thus, it did not have any adverse effects on the security of the neighboring countries.
He also noted that the United States embellishes Israel’s pernicious mass atrocities as “the right to self-defense” despite the civilian death toll in Gaza.He also noted that it rejects Pyongyang’s legitimate exercise of the right to self-defense, which he characterized as “nuclear blackmail.”
Ambassador Song argued that the Council should be held accountable for criminalizing the just exercise of his country’s sovereign right by applying double standards if “physical conflict” is created on the Peninsula as a result of “the reckless mania kicked up by the United States and the Republic of Korea (South Korea).
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