North Korean nuclear and missile programs are a serious threat to global stability, Japan’s Prime Minister Shinzo Abe said, adding that if Pyongyang continued to pursue its agenda, it will not have a “bright future.”
“Today at the meeting with President Putin we had a profound discussion of the North Korea issue, which is now a threat that requires an urgent response, ” Shinzo Abe told a joint press conference with Russia’s President Vladimir Putin at the Eastern Economic Forum on Thursday.
“This is a serious threat to peace and stability in the Korean Peninsula; this is a serious challenge to the global non-proliferation of nuclear weapons. We have the same understanding of the situation. I condemn North Korea in the strongest verbal form possible for the nuclear testing conducted.”
“If North Korea follows this path, it will not have a bright future. This is a message that should be sent to North Korea to make it change its stance, ” Abe stressed.
