UN / SOUTH KOREA

South Korean Ambassador Park In-Kook submits a letter to the Security Council urging its members to discuss the Democratic People's Republic of Korea's alleged sinking of the country's naval ship. UNTV

• Categories: News & Features / News Stories / Unifeed
• Video Length: 00:01:04
• Production Date: 4 June 2010
• Asset Language: Original
• Subject Topical: PEACE AND SECURITY; DISARMAMENT
• Geographic Subject: DEMOCRATIC PEOPLE'S REPUBLIC OF KOREA; REPUBLIC OF KOREA
• MAMS Id: U100604c

Description

STORY: UN / SOUTH KOREA
TRT: 1:04
SOURCE: UNTV
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS

DATELINE: 4 JUNE 2010, NEW YORK CITY

Shotlist

1. Wide shot, United Nations headquarters
2. Pan left, South Korean Ambassador walking to media stakeout
3. Cutaway, journalists
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Park In-Kook, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea:
“We just explained what happened during the sunken Korean naval ship case and we requested that the Security Council respond in a appropriate manner to solve that issue.”
5. Cutaway, journalists
6. Pan left, Security Council President walking to media stakeout
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Claude Heller, Security Council President and Permanent Representative of Mexico:
“We will circulate this letter to all members in order that the Security Council could consider duly this matter and respond in an appropriate manner to this request.”
8. Cutaway, journalists
9. Pan right, Security Council President walking out

Storyline

The Republic of Korea today (4 June) formally requested the Security Council to take up the matter of the sinking of one of its naval ships, alleged by the country to have been carried out by neighbouring Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DRPK).

Late last month Seoul released the findings of an international report which said that its vessel Cheonan was hit by a DPRK torpedo in late March, claiming the lives of 46 of its soldiers.

Park In-Kook, the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador to the United Nations (UN), said that he presented a letter to Ambassador Claude Heller of Mexico, which holds the Council’s rotating presidency for June, requesting the 15-member body to consider the matter.

Heller said that he will “circulate this letter to all members” so that the Security Council “could consider duly this matter and respond in an appropriate manner to this request.”

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said last week at his monthly press conference that the evidence laid out in the report “is overwhelming and deeply troubling,” adding his voice to the chorus of international leaders condemning the incident.