List_of_United_Nations_Security_Council_resolutions_concerning_North_Korea

List of United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning North Korea

List of United Nations Security Council resolutions concerning North Korea

Add article description


The Security Council of the United Nations (UNSC) has adopted 21 resolutions concerning North Korea. Five resolutions were adopted during the Korean War in the 1950s.

U.S. Ambassador to the UN Warren Austin demonstrates a Soviet-made submachine gun to the Security Council during the Korean War.

United Nations North Korea

In 1991, a single resolution was adopted regarding North Korea's accession to membership in the UN. Since then, many resolutions have been adopted in relation to the North Korean missile and nuclear program.

Background

  • The UN Security Council toughens the sanctions in response to North Korea's nuclear and missile tests.[1]
  • The sanctions on North Korea are mainly economic in nature, regulating North Korea's economic activities such as trade with China. The resolutions' sanction mainly 'demands North Korea refrain from further nuclear or missile tests and return to the NPT'. Moreover, the sanctions resolutions try to ban North Korea's ability of exporting their natural resources such as coal and iron ore, and prohibit member states' exports to North Korea, actions which may contribute to North Korea's further nuclear and missile tests.[2]
  • The UN Security Council tries to urge North Korea for denuclearization, a measure that has proven to be ineffective in preventing further nuclear and missile tests.[3]
  • Meanwhile, the most severe sanction of the UNSC is found to be a ban on crude oil exports to North Korea, but such sanction has not been executed yet. The first step for such sanctions to proceed is the achievement of a consensus between member states and international society.[4]

List

  Related to the Korean War
  Related to UN membership
  Related to non-proliferation
More information Resolution, Content ...

See also


References

  1. Adams, Benson D. (1971). Ballistic Missile Defense. American Elsevier Publishing Company.
  2. Allison, Graham T. (2004). Nuclear Terrorism: The Ultimate Preventable Catastrophe. New York: Henry Holt. ISBN 978-0-8050-7651-6.
  3. Carter, Ashton B.; Schwartz, David N., eds. (1984). Ballistic Missile Defense. Brookings Institution/Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
  4. Schrijver, Nico (2015). "The Ban on the Use of Force in the UN Charter". In Weller, Marc (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (1 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 478. ISBN 978-0-19-165391-9.
  5. Klabbers, Jan (2015). "Intervention, Armed Intervention, Armed Attack, Threat to Peace, Act of Aggression, and Threat or Use of Force: What's the Difference?". In Weller, Marc (ed.). The Oxford Handbook of the Use of Force in International Law (1 ed.). Oxford: Oxford University Press. p. 494. ISBN 978-0-19-165391-9.
  6. Salomon, Salem (22 March 2017). "Sanctioned and Shunned, North Korea Finds Arms Deals in Africa". Voice of America. USA. Archived from the original on 22 March 2017. Retrieved 2 April 2017.
  7. Berger, Andrea (16 March 2017). "A Familiar Story: The New UN Report on North Korean Sanctions Implementation". 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University's Paul H. Nitze School of Advanced International Studies. USA. Archived from the original on 16 March 2017. Retrieved 8 April 2017.
  8. Davenport, Kelsey (1 March 2016). "UN Security Council Resolutions on North Korea". Washington, D.C., USA: Arms Control Association. Archived from the original on 15 April 2017. Retrieved 23 April 2017.
  9. Sengupta, Somini; Sang-Hun, Choe (2 March 2016). "U.N. Toughens Sanctions on North Korea in Response to Its Nuclear Program". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 March 2016.
  10. Gladstone, Rick (5 August 2017). "U.N. Security Council imposes punishing new sanctions on North Korea". The New York Times. USA. Retrieved 8 August 2017.
  11. Sengupta, Somini (11 September 2017). "After U.S. Compromise, Security Council Strengthens North Korea Sanctions". The New York Times. USA. Archived from the original on 11 September 2017. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  12. "Resolution 2397 (2017)" (PDF). UN. 22 December 2017. Retrieved 24 December 2017.

Share this article:

This article uses material from the Wikipedia article List_of_United_Nations_Security_Council_resolutions_concerning_North_Korea, and is written by contributors. Text is available under a CC BY-SA 4.0 International License; additional terms may apply. Images, videos and audio are available under their respective licenses.