DPR Korea Mission Launch -France, Germany and the United Kingdom Media Stakeout (1 August 2019)

Media Statement by Karen Pierce, Permanent Representative of the United Kingdom to the United Nations, on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea Missile launch, on behalf of Nicolas de Rivière, Permanent Representative of France, Christoph Heusgen, Permanent Representative of Germany.
The ambassadors of France, Germany and the United Kingdom today (1 Aug) issued a joint statement condemning a missile launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).
The statement, read by UK Ambassador Karen Pierce, urged the DPRK “to take concrete steps towards its complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation and to engage in meaningful negotiations with the US as agreed between President Trump and Kim Jong Un on 30 June.”
According to the statement, “international sanctions need to remain in place and be fully enforced until North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes are dismantled.”
It added that “it is vital that the Security Council shows unity in upholding its resolutions.”