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UN chief 'strongly condemns' North Korea's intercontinental ballistic missile launch

People watch a news broadcast with file footage of a North Korean missile test in Seoul on March 5, 2022. © Jung Yeon-je, AFP

United Nations chief Antonio Guterres on Thursday strongly condemned North Korea's firing of what could be its largest-ever intercontinental ballistic missile and urged Pyongyang to "desist from taking any further counter-productive actions," his spokesman said.

The launch was "another breach" of North Korea's "announced moratorium in 2018 on launches of this nature, and a clear violation of Security Council resolutions," Stephane Dujarric said in a statement.

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