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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 02:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / NATS
DATELINE: 11 DECEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT - NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, UN headquarter
11 DECEMBER 2019, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Med shot, Republic of Korea Ambassador
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific:
“The Secretary-General is very concerned by the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK’s reference to launch in ballistic missiles and its threat of potentially taking a so-called “new path” in the coming weeks is deeply troubling. The Secretary-General is reiterating his call on the DPRK leadership to comply fully with its international obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions, resume working-level talks with the United States, and work for peace and stability.”
4. Wide shot, Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“We are prepared to be flexible in how we approach this matter. And we recognize the need for a balanced agreement that addresses the concerns of all the parties. But we cannot do this alone – North Korea must make this difficult, but bold decision to work with us. However, we have seen deeply troubling indications that the DPRK is headed in a different direction.”
6. Wide shot, Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Kelly Craft, Permanent Representative of the United States to the United Nations:
“Missile and nuclear testing will not bring the DPRK greater security. It will not bring the DPRK or the region greater stability. It will not help the DPRK achieve the economic opportunities it seeks. In fact, it will do the opposite, complicating our ability to negotiate an agreement that would positively address the DPRK’s security and economic goals, and improve regional stability.”
10. Wide shot, Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Cho Hyun, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“Negotiations had its ups and downs, but as rightly pointed out, a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula cannot be overcome in a single day. We will need to pursue this delicate path of dialogue with perseverance and focus and every effort should be made to keep the momentum of this Process going. We are now, however, faced with the recent tum of events, which, if left unchecked, will have a negative effect on this historic process.”
14. Wide shot, end of meeting
A top UN Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations official today (11 Dec) told the Security Council the Democratic People Republic of Korea (DPRK) launching of ballistic missiles and its threat of potentially taking a so-called “new path” in the coming weeks was “deeply troubling.”
Assistant Secretary-General Khaled Khiari said, “the Secretary-General is very concerned by the latest developments on the Korean Peninsula” and has reiterated his call on the DPRK leadership “to comply fully with its international obligations under relevant Security Council resolutions, resume working-level talks with the United States, and work for peace and stability.”
United States Ambassador Kelly Craft told the Council that the US is “prepared to be flexible” and recognizes “the need for a balanced agreement that addresses the concerns of all the parties.”
Craft said North Korea “must make this difficult, but bold decision to work with us.” However, she added, “we have seen deeply troubling indications that the DPRK is headed in a different direction.”
The US Ambassador said, “missile and nuclear testing will not bring the DPRK greater security. It will not bring the DPRK or the region greater stability. It will not help the DPRK achieve the economic opportunities it seeks.”
In fact, she said, “it will do the opposite, complicating our ability to negotiate an agreement that would positively address the DPRK’s security and economic goals, and improve regional stability.”
For his part, the Republic of Korea’s Ambassador, Cho Hyun, said talks and negotiations aimed at fulfilling the commitments of the Panmunjeom Declaration for Peace, Prosperity and Reunification of the Korean Peninsula and the Pyongyang Joint Declaration of September 2018, “had its ups and downs,” but pointed out that “a legacy of 70 years of war and hostility on the Korean Peninsula cannot be overcome in a single day.”
Cho Hyun said, “we will need to pursue this delicate path of dialogue with perseverance and focus and every effort should be made to keep the momentum of this Process going.”
However, he said, “faced with the recent tum of events, which, if left unchecked, will have a negative effect on this historic process.”
On 28 November the DPRK launched two missiles, marking the thirteenth time the DPRK has
Launched ballistic missiles or other projectiles this year.
The DPRK has yet to resume working-level talks with the United States; inter-Korean contacts have stalled; and the DPRK is forgoing some of its other international engagements.
