President Moon Jae-in presides over an emergency meeting of the National Security Council, at Cheong Wa Dae on Sept. 3. (Cheong Wa Dae)
By Sohn JiAe
President Moon Jae-in convened an emergency meeting of the National Security Council (NSC) at 1:30 p.m. on Sunday, Sept. 3, immediately after North Korea conducted its sixth nuclear weapons test. During the NSC meeting, President Moon strongly denounced this provocation as “being a clear violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions and also a grave challenge to world peace and security.”
“Pyongyang’s continuous provocations with intercontinental ballistic missile launches and nuclear weapons tests not only increases tension across the Korean Peninsula, but also poses a great threat to world peace,” said President Moon, calling the test an “absurd strategic mistake that will lead to the international community further isolating the regime.”
The president stressed that his government will join forces with the international community to come up with measures to retaliate against the North so that it cannot but give up its nuclear weapons and missiles.
President Moon also ordered his government to pursue all diplomatic means to make the regime abandon its nuclear weapons and missile programs in a “complete, verifiable and irreversible manner.” He urged the military to “thoroughly prepare for and implement ways to actively respond to the North’s further reckless threats, based on the sound Korea-U.S. combined defense readiness.”
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