Chief nuke envoys of S. Korea, US, Japan criticize NK push to bolster 'self
South Korean special representative for Korean Peninsula Peace and Security Affairs Kim Gunn, left, shakes hands with Japanese Ministry of Foreign Affairs Director General for Asian and Oceanian Affairs Bureau Takehiro Funakoshi, right, as U.S. special representative for North Korea Sung Kim looks at the start of their trilateral meeting on North Korea at the U.S. Embassy in Jakarta, Indonesia, on Dec. 13, 2022. AP-Yonhap
The chief nuclear envoys of South Korea, the United States and Japan decried North Korea's renewed push to strengthen "self-defensive" capabilities as a "challenge" to the international community on Sunday, Seoul's foreign ministry said.
Seoul's top nuclear negotiator, Kim Gunn, and his U.S. and Japanese counterparts, Sung Kim and Takehiro Funakoshi, held three-way phone talks after the North's state media reported North Korean leader Kim Jong-un called for increasing its nuclear arsenal and developing a new intercontinental ballistic missile during a key ruling party meeting.
Their talks also followed the North's firing of shots from what it claimed to have been a super-large multiple rocket launcher on Saturday and Sunday.
"The North's statement on spurring efforts to strengthen so-called self-defensive capabilities in response to moves to isolate it is illogical and this would pose a challenge to the international community and only worsen the situation," the ministry said in a press release.
The North's proclaimed push to strengthen defense raised concerns that it would continue to engage in military provocations.
The three countries warned that the North's provocations would further deepen its isolation and make it face a stronger combined defense posture between the South and the U.S., and cooperation among the allies and Japan, and a "unified, stern" response from the international community, according to the ministry.
The three envoys also stressed that the "only" way for the North to ease its people's economic pain is to stop its provocations, return to dialogue, restore engagement with the outside world and channel resources ― splurged on its nuclear and missile programs ― into stabilizing people's livelihoods.
They also reaffirmed the door for dialogue remains open, the ministry said. (Yonhap)
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