UN Secretary General Guterres expressed concern about new rocket launches by North Korea

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) is very concerned about the latest development of events, confirms his call for the DPRK leadership to fully fulfill its international obligations," TASS quoted him as saying.

The UN Secretary General also called for the resumption of negotiations on the situation on the Korean Peninsula.

Earlier it became known that the DPRK launched an unknown projectile in the direction of the Sea of ​​Japan, which fell outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan.

South Korea condemned the DPRK's missile launch. 

Mona Juul, Chair of the UN Security Council, Norway's Permanent Representative to the World Organization, said that the situation in connection with reports of a new rocket launch by the DPRK causes concern.

The USA, Great Britain, France, Ireland, Japan called on the DPRK to abandon its missile program and enter into negotiations on the complete denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.