UN / DPRK REAX

The recent missile launched by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) serve “only to increase tensions in the region,” a United Nations spokesperson said. UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:00:45
• Production Date: 6 May 2019
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: STEPHANE DUJARRIC
• Subject Topical: BALLISTIC MISSILES; NUCLEAR DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• MAMS Id: 2389461
• Parent Id: 2389461
• Alternate Title: unifeed190506e

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STORY: UN / DPRK REAX
TRT: 0:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /NATS

DATELINE: 6 MAY 2019, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Exterior, UN Headquarters

6 MAY 2019, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, press room
3. Close up, reporter asking a question
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Stephane Dujarric, spokesperson for the United Nations Secretary-General:
“We are very much aware of the recent launches by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. Such an action serves only to increase tensions in the region. The Secretary-General continues to closely follow the developments and encourages all parties to continue their dialogue to advance sustainable peace and complete and verifiable denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.”
5. Wide shot, press room

Storyline

The recent missile launched by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) serve “only to increase tensions in the region,” a United Nations spokesperson said today (6 May).

On Friday ( 4 May), the DPRK launched a number of short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan.

Answering a question from a journalist, Stephane Dujarric, Spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General said, “we are very much aware of the recent launches by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea” and that “such an action serves only to increase tensions in the region.”

Dujarric also said “the Secretary-General continues to closely follow the developments and encourages all parties to continue their dialogue to advance sustainable peace and complete and verifiable denuclearization on the Korean peninsula.”

If the missile launched on Friday included a launch of a banned ballistic missile, that will be a first such test by the DPRK since November 2017, when it claimed a successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile.