Seoul, south Korea: United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres announced on Friday the UN’s unwavering commitment to complete nuclear disarmament Answer Despite a divided Security Council, Korea gives the isolated country more room to expand its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
meeting with the president of south korea eun suk yeoli In Seoul, Guterres said he reaffirmed the UN’s “clear commitment to the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK”, using the initials of North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. .
“There is a fundamental objective of bringing peace, security and stability to the entire region,” he told Yoon, while also praising South Korea’s participation in international peace efforts and fighting climate change.
Guterres, who arrived in South Korea on Thursday, later met with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, who said the UN-led international community should send a strong and unified message to North Korea that its nuclear ambitions will not be tolerated.
Park called for the UN’s help in finding an effective solution to the North Korean nuclear issue, and Guterres expressed support for South Korean efforts to stabilize peace on the peninsula. foreign Ministry Told.
North Korea has tested more than 30 ballistic missiles this year, including the first flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as leader. Kim Jong Un North Korea has pushed to advance its nuclear arsenal in the face of what it calls “gangster-like” US-led pressure and sanctions.
Experts say the unusually fast pace of weapons display is also aimed at forcing Washington to accept North Korea’s view as a nuclear power and negotiate much-needed sanctions relief and security concessions. Understood volatility, experts say. The US and South Korean governments have also said that the North is gearing up to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb designed for its ICBMs.
when Biden The administration has said it would push for additional sanctions if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, with the prospect of meaningful punitive measures unclear. China and Russia recently vetoed US-sponsored resolutions at the United Nations Security Council that would this year extend sanctions on the North on some of its ballistic missile tests, underscoring the divide between the council’s permanent members who have ruled Ukraine. But Russia’s war has deepened.
Guterres’ meeting with South Korean officials came a day after North Korea claimed a widely disputed victory over Covid-19 but blamed rival South Korea for the outbreak, vowing “deadly” retaliation. The North insisted that its initial infection was caused by leaflets and other objects blown across the border on balloons launched by South Korea’s anti-Pyongyang activists, a claim Seoul describes as unscientific and “ridiculous”.
North Korea has a history of pressuring the South when it doesn’t get what it wants from the United States, and there are concerns that North Korea’s threats reflect a provocation, including nuclear or missile tests or even provocations. That may also involve clashes on the border.
meeting with the president of south korea eun suk yeoli In Seoul, Guterres said he reaffirmed the UN’s “clear commitment to the complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and the DPRK”, using the initials of North Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. .
“There is a fundamental objective of bringing peace, security and stability to the entire region,” he told Yoon, while also praising South Korea’s participation in international peace efforts and fighting climate change.
Guterres, who arrived in South Korea on Thursday, later met with South Korean Foreign Minister Park Jin, who said the UN-led international community should send a strong and unified message to North Korea that its nuclear ambitions will not be tolerated.
Park called for the UN’s help in finding an effective solution to the North Korean nuclear issue, and Guterres expressed support for South Korean efforts to stabilize peace on the peninsula. foreign Ministry Told.
North Korea has tested more than 30 ballistic missiles this year, including the first flights of intercontinental ballistic missiles since 2017, as leader. Kim Jong Un North Korea has pushed to advance its nuclear arsenal in the face of what it calls “gangster-like” US-led pressure and sanctions.
Experts say the unusually fast pace of weapons display is also aimed at forcing Washington to accept North Korea’s view as a nuclear power and negotiate much-needed sanctions relief and security concessions. Understood volatility, experts say. The US and South Korean governments have also said that the North is gearing up to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a nuclear bomb designed for its ICBMs.
when Biden The administration has said it would push for additional sanctions if North Korea conducts another nuclear test, with the prospect of meaningful punitive measures unclear. China and Russia recently vetoed US-sponsored resolutions at the United Nations Security Council that would this year extend sanctions on the North on some of its ballistic missile tests, underscoring the divide between the council’s permanent members who have ruled Ukraine. But Russia’s war has deepened.
Guterres’ meeting with South Korean officials came a day after North Korea claimed a widely disputed victory over Covid-19 but blamed rival South Korea for the outbreak, vowing “deadly” retaliation. The North insisted that its initial infection was caused by leaflets and other objects blown across the border on balloons launched by South Korea’s anti-Pyongyang activists, a claim Seoul describes as unscientific and “ridiculous”.
North Korea has a history of pressuring the South when it doesn’t get what it wants from the United States, and there are concerns that North Korea’s threats reflect a provocation, including nuclear or missile tests or even provocations. That may also involve clashes on the border.