JAKARTA, Indonesia — President Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. on Wednesday reiterated his name for the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) to adjust to the United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolutions following the sequence of intercontinental ballistic missile launch checks.
“In the interest of maintaining peace and stability in the region, we express grave concern over the recent surge of intercontinental ballistic missile launches conducted by the DPRK. We underscore the need for the DPRK to fully comply with all UN Security Council Resolutions.,” Marcos mentioned in his intervention on the twenty fourth ASEAN-Republic of Korea Summit Wednesday.
Marcos additionally expressed help for South Korea’s initiative to denuclearize the DPRK.
“We also affirm our support for the principles embodied in the ROK’s audacious initiative that aims to achieve a denuclearized DPRK, an essential component for sustainable peace and prosperity in the Korean Peninsula, in Northeast Asia, and the world,” Marcos mentioned.
This isn’t the primary time that Marcos known as on the DPRK to observe UN Security Council Resolutions as he already expressed his concern over the problem in the course of the forty first ASEAN Summit Retreat in November 2022.
Last month, Marcos additionally emphasised the necessity to implement new peace efforts within the Korean Peninsula.
“We take into account it a vital challenge that, actually, we within the area should work collectively very, very exhausting to attempt to alleviate the tensions, to attempt to make all of the proponents of peace within the area be the dominant voice,” Marcos mentioned. —VAL, GMA Integrated News
Source: www.gmanetwork.com
