Taipei, July 22 (CNA) The Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) has condemned North Korea for raising tensions and threatening regional peace after the country launched multiple missiles early Saturday.
In a statement released Saturday, MOFA said that North Korea had, since last year, launched ballistic and cruise missiles multiple times, ignoring the prohibition orders issued by the United Nations Security Council and leading to rising tensions on both the Korean Peninsula and in the wider Indo-Pacific region.
MOFA said the act had violated the rules of the international community and condemned the Northeast Asian country for threatening peace.
MOFA said Taiwan, South Korea and Japan are democratic allies in the Indo-Pacific region, and that all face threats from communist and authoritarian regimes.
The ministry said that South Korea, Japan and the United States had kept a close watch during China’s large-scale military drills around Taiwan in August last year.
MOFA added that South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol had said in an April interview with Reuters that he opposed changing the cross-strait “status quo” by force.
Yoon echoed that sentiment in a summit with U.S. President Joe Biden held in late April, when he said that maintaining peace and stability in the Taiwan Strait was crucial and that he would be against any attempt to change the status quo in the Indo-Pacific region.
MOFA said Taiwan would keep on cooperating with like-minded countries in an effort to boost peace and prosperity in the Indo-Pacific and to work toward the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
