India has joined the US and a dozen other nations to condemn North Korea’s recent multinational ballistic bullet launch, with New Delhi venting concern over the proliferation of nuclear and bullet technologies, saying they’ve an” adverse impact” on peace and security in the region, including on India.

India’s Permanent Representative to the UN Ambassador Ruchira Kamboj told the UN Security Council meeting on North Korea on Monday– the Council met for the alternate time this month on the issue– that New Delhi condemns the recent multinational ballistic bullet launch by North Korea.The rearmost North Korean bullet launch on November 18 which landed about 125 long hauls from Japan’s bank came after other ballistic bullet launches in the antedating months.

Kamboj said these launches constitute a violation of the judgments of the Security Council relating to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea and affect the peace and security of the region and beyond.
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas- Greenfield delivered a common statement on behalf of Albania, Australia, Ecuador, France, Ireland, India, Japan, Malta, Norway, the Republic of Korea, Switzerland, the United Arab Emirates, the United Kingdom, and the United States on the bullet launch.

The common statement explosively condemned the multinational ballistic bullet launch of November 18 as well as the posterior report in North Korea’s state- controlled media that it could be used for a preemptive nuclear strike.Kamboj said India calls for full perpetration of the applicable UN Security Council judgments relating to North Korea.

We’d also like to reiterate, formerly again, the significance of addressing the proliferation of nuclear and bullet technologies related to DPRK. The proliferation of nuclear and bullet technologies is a matter of concern, as they’ve an adverse impact on peace and security in the region, including on India, Kamboj said, adding that New Delhi hopes the transnational community and the Security Council can be united on this front.India reiterates its uninterrupted support for denuclearisation towards peace and security in the Korean promontory.

icing peace and security in the Korean Peninsula is in our collaborative interest. Going forward, we will continue to support dialogue and tactfulness as the means to resolve the issues in the Korean Peninsula,” the statement said.The common statement noted that this was North Korea’s eighth multinational ballistic bullet launch this time.

Compared with the total number of multinational ballistic bullet launches previous to 2022, this represents a serious escalation and poses an unambiguous trouble to transnational peace and security, the statement said, adding that North Korea is acting with immunity in the face of the Security Council’s inactivity.Thomas- Greenfield said the 14 nations support the need for the council to condemn North Korea’s conduct with a unified voice and to take action to limit its unlawful munitions of mass destruction and ballistic bullet advancement, especially as it relates to nuclear bullet technologies in North Korea, the region, and beyond.

We invite all member states to join us in condemning the DPRK’s unlawful ballistic bullet launches and call for full perpetration of the being Security Council judgments . We also prompt the DPRK to abandon its unlawful munitions programmes in a complete, empirical , and unrecoverable manner, the common statement said.ead of UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs( DPPA) Rosemary DiCarlo told the meeting that bullet Hwasong- 17 reportedly flew a distance of,000 kilometres and to an altitude of roughly,100 kilometres.

She said it’s reportedly the first successful test of North Korea’s largest and most important bullet, able of reaching all of North America.She said the launch was the rearmost in a series of intimidating conditioning related to its nuclear armament and ballistic bullet programmes that North Korea conducted in 2022.

North Korea’s” continued pursuit of its nuclear munitions programme and launches of ballistic dumdums blatantly violate applicable Security Council judgments and have led to a significant escalation of pressures, the UN Under- Secretary General said, reiterating calls on the country to desist from taking farther instigative conduct and to completely misbehave with its transnational scores under applicable Security Council judgments .

She added that North Korea appears to be laboriously pursuing its nuclear programme and the Director General of the International Atomic Energy Agency( IAEA) reported on November 16 that the Punggye- ri nuclear test point remains set to support a nuclear test.

The IAEA has continued to observe exertion at the point. It has also observed construction conditioning at the Yongbyon nuclear installations as well as suggestions that the 5- megawatt nuclear reactor was operating, DiCarlo said.Noting that this was the 10th time the council was meeting to bandy North Korea in 2022, she said the situation on the Korean Peninsula continues to head in the wrong direction.

The repeated bullet launches, combative rhetoric, and military exercises contribute to a negative action- response cycle. Pressures continue to increase, with no out- ramps in sight. In addition, the COVID- 19 epidemic is complicating tactfulness by impeding functionary and unofficial connections with the DPRK, she said.The UN functionary underscored that it’s critical to lessen and reduce pressures, stressing that communication channels must be enhanced, particularly military- to- service, to lower the threat of misapprehension.