FILE PHOTO: Men look at a military fence decorated with ribbons bearing messages wishing for the reunification of the two Koreas near the demilitarized zone separating the two Koreas, in Paju, South Korea, November 4, 2022. REUTERS/Kim Hong-Ji
Brussels: The EU on Saturday condemned North Korea's flurry of "illegal" missile launches and called for a global "resolute and united response," including the full weight of UN sanctions.
The bloc viewed the "unprecedented" number of missiles fired, including an intercontinental ballistic missile and short-range ballistic missiles, as "a dangerous escalation" by Pyongyang, said an EU statement issued by its foreign policy chief Josep Borrell.
"The EU calls on all UN Member States, especially Members of the UN Security Council, to ensure the full implementation of sanctions to prevent the DPRK (the Democratic People's Republic of Korea -- North Korea's formal name) from procuring materials, knowledge and finance that support its illegal weapons programmes," it said.
