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Statement by Foreign Ministry on North Koreas activities threatening regional security


Latvia condemns North Korea in the strongest terms possible for its military activity and urges the country to return immediately to compliance with the Korean Armistice Agreement and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons. The statement by the North Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs on the right to a pre emptive nuclear attack against the aggressors is an explicit threat to regional security and stability. North Korea issued its statement following the unanimous vote on the UN Security Council resolution 2094 about tightening the sanctions regime against North Korea. The reason North Korea named was the U.S.-South Korean joint military exercises, which North Korea regards as hostilities launched by the U.S. against North Korea. On 11 March, in confirmation of the end of armistice, North Korea announced that no one can predict what will happen from now. Earlier, on 8 March, North Korea declared that it nullifies the Korean Armistice Agreement providing for the end of hostilities on the Korean Peninsula. In 2003 North Korea announced its withdrawal from the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons.

Estonia denounces the nuclear test North Korea carried out on Tuesday.

"We condemn the North Korean nuclear test. North Korean leaders had better use the money spent on such tests for the benefit of their people," Foreign Minister Urmas Paet told BNS. The isolated state confirmed on Tuesday it had successfully conducted its third underground test which involved a miniaturized device with a bigger explosive yield. The South Korean Defense Ministry put the explosive yield at 6 -7 kilotons, significantly more than the 2006 and 2009 tests. The test has already been condemned by the European Union, NATO, the United States, Russia, Japan and South Korea. UN Secretary General Ban Ki -Moon called it a destabilizing provocation. The EU condemned the test "in the strongest possible terms", saying it was "a further blatant challenge" to the world's non -proliferation regime. A statement from EU foreign policy chief Catherine Ashton warned that the EU would work with its partners to show "the DPRK (North Korea) that there a re consequences."

Lithuania condemns the North Korean nuclear test, announced on February 12. This is the third nuclear explosion in the country, informs urm.lt. As well as the launch of ballistic missile in December 2012, this test poses a grave threat to the international nuclear non-proliferation regime. It is a serious and open violation of North Koreas international obligations, in particular of the resolutions 1718, 1874, and 2087 of the United Nations Security Council. The North Korean highly provocative acts pose a threat to peace, security and stability in the Korean peninsula and wider region.

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