WASHINGTON — The highest diplomats of the Group of Seven (G7) nations Wednesday reaffirmed their dedication to the “full” denuclearization of North Korea and denounced the recalcitrant regime’s advancing nuclear and ballistic missile applications.
The chief diplomats of the US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Britain, Japan and the Excessive Consultant of the European Union issued a joint assertion after they met underneath Canada’s presidency in Niagara-on-the-Lake, Ontario, on Tuesday and Wednesday.
“We strongly condemned the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile applications and reaffirmed our dedication to the entire denuclearization of the DPRK, in accordance with related U.N. Safety Council Resolutions,” the assertion learn. DPRK is brief for North Korea’s official identify, the Democratic Folks’s Republic of Korea.
The G7 diplomats additionally expressed “grave” considerations over the North’s cryptocurrency thefts and urged it to resolve the abductions problem “expeditiously.”
Reaffirming their “unwavering” assist for Ukraine in defending itself, the diplomats additionally condemned the availability to Russia of navy help by North Korea and Iran, and the availability of weapons and dual-use elements by China, which they referred to as a “decisive enabler” of Russia’s warfare.
