UN Ambassador Munir Akram says Pakistan opposes any further nuclear weapons testing in Korea or elsewhere. In response to North Korea's latest ballistic missile launch on Monday, Pakistan expressed deep concern and urged for diplomatic engagement and dialogue to address the growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula.

North Korea has fired what appears to be an intermediate range ballistic missile towards the sea to its east, South Korea's military said, in what is Pyongyang's first missile launch in two months. Japan's defence ministry said around noon local time (03:00 GMT) that the projectile had already fallen into the sea.