EU strongly condemns North Korea's IRBM launch... "solidarity with South Korea"

The European Union strongly condemned North Korea's launch of intermediate-range ballistic missiles and IRBMs on the 6th.

The EU Foreign Ministry's foreign affairs agency said in a statement named by its spokesman that North Korea's missile launches violate a number of U.N. Security Council resolutions and further escalate tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

He added that he expressed his full solidarity with South Korea, Japan and other partners in Northeast Asia.

The Joint Chiefs of Staff said North Korea fired a medium-range ballistic missile from Pyongyang to the East Sea around noon on the 6th.

North Korea claimed to have successfully test-fired a new hypersonic mid- to long-range ballistic missile, but the Joint Chiefs of Staff weighed in on the possibility of deception.