"I strongly condemn North Korea's dangerous and destabilizing missile tests that violate UN Security Council resolutions," he tweeted.

The Secretary General of the alliance noted that the DPRK should abandon its nuclear programs and "engage in diplomacy."

Earlier it became known that the DPRK launched a ballistic missile.

The missile launched by the DPRK flew 4.6 thousand km and fell outside the exclusive economic zone of Japan.

The US called the launch a reckless and destabilizing decision.