ISE-SHIMA (Japan), (Sputnik) – In early January, North Korea successfully carried out a hydrogen bomb test, and put a satellite into orbit a month later, in violation of UN Security Council resolutions. In March, the UN Security Council adopted a resolution that imposes additional sanctions on North Korea, aiming to affect multiple sectors of the country’s economy. That same month, North Korea conducted multiple short and medium-range rocket launches.
"We demand that North Korea immediately and fully comply with all relevant UN Security Council resolutions and its commitments under the 2005 Joint Statement of the Six-Party Talks, and not conduct any further nuclear tests, launches, or engage in any other destabilizing or provocative actions," the G7 leaders said in a joint declaration on Friday.
The leaders also condemned Pyongyang’s January hydrogen bomb test, warning that it poses a "grave threat" to international peace and security.
The United Nations previously imposed sanctions on North Korea for three tests it carried out in 2006, 2009 and 2013.
North Korea declared itself a nuclear power in 2005. The United States, Japan and South Korea, as well as Russia and China, took part in talks with North Korea on the denuclearization of the Korean peninsula between 2003 and 2009, when Pyongyang withdrew from the talks.
