UN / DPRK

A senior United Nations official told the Security Council that “there continue to be signs the DPRK is maintaining and developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.” UNIFEED

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:02:45
• Production Date: 17 September 2018
• Asset Language: English
• Personal Subject: ROSEMARY A. DICARLO
• Corporate Name: SECURITY COUNCIL
• Subject Topical: SANCTIONS
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• MAMS Id: 2236527
• Parent Id: 2236527
• Alternate Title: unifeed180917a

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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 2:45
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH /RUSSIAN /NATS

DATELINE:17 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY

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1. Exterior, UN Headquarters

17 SEPTEMBER 2018, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council in session
3. Med shot, DiCarlo at the Council’s table
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:
“There continue to be signs the DPRK is maintaining and developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. The International Atomic Energy Agency remains unable to access the DPRK and verify the correctness and completeness of the DPRK’s declarations under its safeguards agreement. The Agency continue to monitor developments through commercially available satellite imagery where possible.”
5. Cutaway, delegates
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Rosemary DiCarlo, Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs:
“In his regular report to the IAEA Borad of Governors and General Conference submitted on 20 August, the IAEA Director General reported that the Agency had observed signatures consistent with the continued operation of the plutonium production reactor, radiochemical laboratory and alleged uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon.”
7. Med shot, Haley speaking
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“The difficult, very sensitive talks with North Korea are ongoing. The Trump-Kim summit has set us on a path toward complete denuclearization. But we’re not there yet. And until we get there, we must not ease the powerful worldwide sanctions that are in place.”
9. Med shot, Haley speaking
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Nikki Haley, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Why, after voting for sanctions eleven different times, is Russia now backing away from them? We know the answer. It is because Russia has been cheating. And now they’ve been caught. Despite its repeated support for UN sanctions, Russia is actively working to undermine the enforcement of the Security Council’s sanctions on North Korea.”
11. Wide shot, Security Council in session
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“The United States are becoming increasingly aggressive in trying to subjugate the Security Council. Sometimes we are left with an impression that in Washington they are confusing the UN Security Council and the National Security Council of the United States.”
13. Cutaway, delegates
14. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations:
“No one is trying to question the fact that the DPRK having a nuclear program is unacceptable. But what can we expect when Pyongyang is being called upon to unconditionally comply with all of the conditions against the guarantee of empty promises?”
15. Cutaway, delegates
16. Wide shot, end of meeting

Storyline

A senior United Nations official told the Security Council today “there continue to be signs the DPRK is maintaining and developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes.”

Speaking at the Security Council’s meeting on the implementation of sanctions on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK), requested by the United States, the United Nations Under-Secretary-General for Political Affairs Rosemary DiCarlo, said “there continue to be signs the DPRK is maintaining and developing its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes. The International Atomic Energy Agency remains unable to access the DPRK and verify the correctness and completeness of the DPRK’s declarations under its safeguards agreement” adding that the agency “continue to monitor developments through commercially available satellite imagery where possible.”

DiCarlo also related the report made by the IAEA Director General in which the Agency had “observed signatures consistent with the continued operation of the plutonium production reactor, radiochemical laboratory and alleged uranium enrichment facility at Yongbyon.”

Also speaking at the meeting, the US ambassador and the Security Council’s current president Nikki Haley said “the difficult, very sensitive talks with North Korea are ongoing. The Trump-Kim summit has set us on a path toward complete denuclearization. But we’re not there yet. And until we get there, we must not ease the powerful worldwide sanctions that are in place.”

The meeting of the Council took place at a time of growing tension between the US and the Russia over the implementation of sanctions on the DPRK.

Accusing Russia of “actively working to undermine the enforcement of the Security Council’s sanctions on North Korea” by breaching the sanctions for its own economic gain, Haley asked “why, after voting for sanctions eleven different times, is Russia now backing away from them? We know the answer. It is because Russia has been cheating.”

Vassily Nebenzia, Permanent Representative of Russian Federation to the United Nations rejected these allegations and said “the United States are becoming increasingly aggressive in trying to subjugate the Security Council. Sometimes we are left with an impression that in Washington they are confusing the UN Security Council and the National Security Council of the United States.”

He also said “no one is trying to question the fact that the DPRK having a nuclear program is unacceptable. But what can we expect when Pyongyang is being called upon to unconditionally comply with all of the conditions against the guarantee of empty promises?”

In a press release from 13 September, the United States ambassador accused Russia of pressuring the Panel of Experts of the 1718 DPRK Sanction Committee into modifying its confidential original midterm report which allegedly contained sanctions violations by some Russians.