Prime Minister Shinzo Abe and Peruvian President Pedro Pablo Kuczynski agreed Friday to cooperate in adopting a new U.N. Security Council resolution that imposes tougher sanctions on North Korea in response to its fifth and largest nuclear test in September.
Abe and Kuczynski condemned "in the strongest terms" the two nuclear tests and more than 20 ballistic missile launches North Korea has carried out this year, and demanded that the country refrain from conducting further provocative acts, the leaders said in a joint statement issued after their meeting in Lima.
They also agreed to step up efforts to achieve early implementation of the Trans-Pacific Partnership, a 12-nation free trade pact involving the two countries and 10 other Pacific Rim economies, the statement said.