Japan condemns North Korean-made ballistic missiles fired at Ukraine by Russia

NEW YORK: Japanese Foreign Minister Yoko Kamikawa condemned the supplying of weapons from North Korea to Russia on Monday after chairing a United Nations Security Council meeting on “Nuclear Disarmament and Non-Proliferation.”

“The North Korean-made ballistic missile launched to Ukraine by Russia is absolutely unacceptable,” said Kamikawa to reporters.

Kamikawa stated that Japan “is the only country that was the victim of nuclear bombings,” and that Russia’s threat and use of nuclear weapons “should never happen.”

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She also announced the establishment of FMCT Friends, a cross-regional group with the participation of both nuclear-weapon states and non-nuclear-weapon states including Australia, Brazil, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands, Nigeria, Philippines, United Kingdom and the United Stattes.

This group “aims to maintain and enhance political attention on an FMCT (A fissile material cut-off treaty),” according to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan.