Major Southeast Asian nations and their Indo-Pacific partners, including South Korea and the United States, have called for North Korea to “fully comply” with U.N. Security Council (UNSC) resolutions banning its nuclear and missile programs, as they wrapped up an annual ministerial meeting in Laos last week.
The chairman’s statement from the ASEAN Regional Forum (ARF), released Tuesday, also called on countries to “fully implement” UNSC resolutions on North Korea and make efforts toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula, according to the document.
“Many Ministers called on the DPRK to comply fully with all relevant UNSC Resolutions and called for peaceful dialogue among the concerned parties, and continue working towards the realization of lasting peace, and stability in a denuclearized Korean Peninsula,” the statement read.
