Ammon News - United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres strongly condemned North Korea's launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile.

"The Secretary-General strongly condemns the launch of yet another ballistic missile of intercontinental range by the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," Guterres' spokesman Stephane Dujarric said in a statement issued late Sunday.

"The Secretary-General reiterates his calls on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to immediately desist from taking any further provocative actions, to fully comply with its international obligations under all relevant Security Council resolutions, and to resume dialogue leading to sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula," he added.