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UN / DPRK NEW SANCTIONS
STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 02:53
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CHINESE / NATS
DATELINE: 30 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – RECENT, NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations headquarters
30 NOVEMBER 2016, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Various shots, vote
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Ban Ki-moon, Secretary-General, United Nations:
“Today’s resolution includes the toughest and most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed by the Security Council. It sends an unequivocal message that the DPRK must cease further provocative actions and comply fully with its international obligations. Targeted sanctions matter. Security Council sanctions represent the clear and unified will of the international community.”
5. Wide shot, Republic of Korea delegation
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Samantha Power, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The United States is realistic about what this resolution will achieve. No resolution in New York will likely, tomorrow, persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons. But this resolution imposes unprecedented costs on the DPRK regime for defying this Council’s demands. The door remains open for the DPRK to choose a different path; to choose the path of negotiations toward complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization. When the DPRK makes this choice, the United States, and I know this Council, will be ready to engage.”
7. Wide shot, Security Council dais
8. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) LIU Jieyi, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“Since the beginning of this year DPRK has conducted two nuclear tests and multiple ballistic missile tests. On the other hand certain parties have kept strengthening military deployment, increasing military presence, and scaling up military exercises. As a result the confrontation on the Peninsula has intensified, plunging into a vicious circle. This situation must be changed.”
9. Wide shot, Security Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Joon Oh, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“Even if North Korea is very secluded and cut out from the rest of the world, no country is an island. North Korea is not an island either. For themselves I think they should forgo their nuclear programme and come back to us for talks and for dialogue to settle this issue once and for all and to go for peace and prosperity, not only in the Korean Peninsula, but in the region and in the world as a whole.”
11. Pan Right, ambassadors walk away
As the Security Council today (30 Nov) unanimously voted the “toughest and most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed by the Security Council” on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its nuclear weapons programme, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said the resolution “sends an unequivocal message that the DPRK must cease further provocative actions and comply fully with its international obligations.”
United States ambassador Samantha Power told the Council that “no resolution in New York will likely, tomorrow, persuade Pyongyang to cease its relentless pursuit of nuclear weapons. But this resolution imposes unprecedented costs on the DPRK regime for defying this Council’s demands.”
Power said “the door remains open for the DPRK to choose a different path; to choose the path of negotiations toward complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization.”
Ambassador LIU Jieyi, of China, the DPRK’s main trading partner, said “since the beginning of this year DPRK has conducted two nuclear tests and multiple ballistic missile tests. On the other hand certain parties have kept strengthening military deployment, increasing military presence, and scaling up military exercises. As a result the confrontation on the Peninsula has intensified, plunging into a vicious circle. This situation must be changed.”
Outside the Council ambassadors Power, Oh, and Koro Besshoof Japan jointly addressed reporters.
Oh said “even if North Korea is very secluded and cut out from the rest of the world, no country is an island. North Korea is not an island either. For themselves I think they should forgo their nuclear programme and come back to us for talks and for dialogue to settle this issue once and for all and to go for peace and prosperity, not only in the Korean Peninsula, but in the region and in the world as a whole.”
Among other targeted measures, the new resolution imposes caps on DPRK’s coal exports, its main source of revenue.
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