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N. Korea reassures ICAO of missile test halt amid expanding aviation activities

Statement reiterates pledge made at ruling party meeting in April

North Korea has informed the UN’s International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO) that it will no longer fire missiles without warning.

The statement was conveyed to the Directors of ICAO’s Air Navigation Bureau and Regional Office for the Asia-Pacific Stephen Creamer and Arun Mishra during a visit to the DPRK between May 7 and May 9 for meetings with local aviation officials.

“DPRK civil aviation authorities made an unqualified pledge that no further unscheduled, unannounced missile testing or other activities hazardous to civil aviation will occur, remarking that the DPRK national nuclear arms programme was complete,” ICAO said in a statement following