Government of Indonesia Condemned North Korean missile test

INDUSTRY.co.id - Jakarta - The Indonesian government condemned a test launch of a missile launched by North Korea on Monday, August 28, 2017, as stated in a press statement from the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Indonesia received by Editorial in Jakarta on Tuesday (8/28/2017)

The Indonesian government has strongly criticized the missile tests by North Korea for passing through the airspace of other countries and endangering the flight path.

The Government of Indonesia affirms that the missile test measures are contrary to North Korea's obligations to the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, in particular resolutions 2270 (2016), 2321 (2016), 2356 (2017) and 2371 (2017).

To that end, Indonesia urges North Korea to fully fulfill its international obligations, including fully implementing UN Security Council resolutions.

Furthermore, the Government of Indonesia reaffirms that stability on the Korean peninsula is very important. Therefore, Indonesia invites all countries to contribute to the creation of peace and stability on the Korean peninsula.

In addition, the Government of Indonesia encourages all parties to exercise restraint and not take any action that could add tension in the Korean Peninsula.

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un has ordered more solid-fuel rocket engines in an effort to realize his nuclear and missile programs amid a dispute with the United States.

Earlier, Pyongyang's deputy ambassador to the UN told UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres that North Korea's nuclear weapons program could never be negotiated as long as "US hostile policies and nuclear threats continue".

"As long as US hostile policies and nuclear threats continue, North Korea ... will never put its own nuclear deterrent program at the negotiating table or retreat from the path of its own choosing, the way to strengthen the country's nuclear power," Kim Jong Un said. Guterres by phone.

Meanwhile, UN Secretary General Guterres said it was time to "defuse rhetoric and encourage diplomacy" related to North Korea. He has also told Russia, Japan, the United States, China and North Korea and South Korea that he is willing to help broker the talks