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Rosemary A. DiCarlo DicarloRosemaryThe launch was “the latest in a series of alarming activities” related to North Korea’s nuclear weapon and ballistic missile programmes, Ms. DiCarlo pointed out. She noted that it has conducted over 60 launches using ballistic missile technology this year, two of which involved ballistic missiles characterised by the DPRK as intermediate-range, and three as intercontinental-range. This year it has also carried out launches using ballistic missile technology to test so-called hypersonic weapons and satellite systems, continued the senior UN official. Desist and complyThe Secretary-General had strongly condemned the DPRK’s latest intercontinental ballistic missile launch – the second one this month, Ms. DiCarlo said. Repeated missile launches, confrontational rhetoric, and military exercises contribute to “a negative action-reaction cycle” as tensions continue to increase, with “no off-ramps in sight”, she added.
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