Scores of the member states of the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons(NPT) have joined a chorus against North Korea’s nuclear program, urging the defiant regime to give it up.

Japan’s Kyodo News said that a total of 62 NPT members, including South Korea, the U.S., France and Japan, adopted a statement calling for North Korea’s renouncement of its nuclear and missile development during a preparatory committee for the 2020 NPT Review Conference in Vienna, Austria on Thursday.

The statement, drafted by South Korea and France, points out that the North’s nuclear and missile tests violate the UN Security Councils’ resolutions, strongly condemns the North over the actions, and urges it to abandon its nuclear and missile programs.

It also notes the North’s nuclear and missile programs pose a grave threat to international peace and stability and calls on the North to return to the NPT regime and allow the International Atomic Energy Agency(IAEA) inspectors to inspect its nuclear facilities.

China and Russia did not participate in the adoption of the statement. 

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