US urges full implementation of UNSC sanctions on North Korea

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A boy watches a screen showing a photo from the April 27, 2018, inter-Korean summit between President Moon Jae-in and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un at the Unification Observation Post in Paju, South Korea, near the border with North Korea, Oct. 4. AP-Yonhap

A spokesman for the U.S. State Department on Monday stressed the need to fully implement U.N. Security Council sanctions on N. Korea while also urging the North to comply with U.N. resolutions that prohibit the North from testing or developing weapons of mass destruction.

Ned Price made the remark after North Korea criticized the U.N. Security Council (UNSC) for convening an emergency meeting last week to discuss its recent missile launches.

"We remain concerned by the DPRK's repeated violations of multiple Security Council resolutions and we underscore the need for both full compliance with Security Council resolutions and full implementation of all existing U.N. sanctions," the spokesman said in a telephonic press conference.

DPRK stands for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, North Korea's official name.

White House press secretary Jen Psaki echoed concerns over North Korea's recent missile launches.

"We, of course, condemn any illicit missile launches, which are destabilizing to the region and to the international community," she said in a White House press briefing.

The UNSC meeting, held Friday in New York, followed a series of missile launches by the North that Pyongyang claims had included the testing of a newly developed hypersonic missile and an anti-aircraft missile.