South Korea, US and Japan 'strongly condemn' North Korea launch


  • World
  • Thursday, 24 Aug 2023

FILE PHOTO: South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin speaks during his meeting with Japan's Foreign Minister Yoshimasa Hayashi and U.S. Secretary of State Antony Blinken in Jakarta, Indonesia, Friday, July 14, 2023. Dita Alangkara/Pool via REUTERS/file photo

SEOUL (Reuters) - South Korea Foreign Minister Park Jin and his U.S. and Japan counterparts on Thursday "strongly condemned" a North Korean rocket launch which they said was a ballistic missile disguised as a space rocket, South Korea's foreign ministry said on Thursday.

The ministers also agreed during a phone call to consider unilateral sanctions responding to Thursday's launch, the ministry said.

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