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| South Korean First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong, left, Japanese Vice Foreign Minister Takeo Mori, center, and U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Wendy Sherman attend a joint press conference at the Iikura Guest House in Tokyo, Oct. 26. Yonhap |
Senior diplomats of South Korea, the United States and Japan strongly condemned North Korea's latest missile launches in their phone talks Monday, calling them a "serious threat" to the security of the Korean Peninsula and beyond, according to Seoul's foreign ministry.
Last week, the North launched a barrage of ballistic missiles into the East Sea and the Yellow Sea, including an intercontinental ballistic missile, apparently in protest against a South Korea-U.S. joint air force drill called "Vigilant Storm."
In their consultations, First Vice Foreign Minister Cho Hyun-dong and his American and Japanese counterparts ― Wendy Sherman and Takeo Mori, respectively ― pointed out the North's recent ballistic missile launches were in violation of multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions, and posed a serious threat to the peace and stability of the peninsula and the international community as a whole, added the ministry. (Yonhap)
