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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 3:41
SOURCE: UNIFEED
RESTRICTIONS: NONE
LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / CHINESE / NATS
DATELINE: 17 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
RECENT – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
17 APRIL 2023, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, United Nations:
“The lack of unity and action in the Security Council does little to slow the negative trajectory on the Korean Peninsula. The DPRK is unconstrained, and other parties are compelled to focus on military deterrence.”
4. Med shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, United Nations:
“It is the DPRK’s first launch of a long-range solid-fuel ballistic missile. Solid-propellant missiles do not need to undergo fuelling prior to launch. They can thus be launched more quickly than liquid-propellant missiles. This also means that it may be more difficult to detect the preparation of a launch in a timely manner.”
6. Med shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations, United Nations:
“The Secretary-General strongly condemns the launch of yet another long-range ballistic missile by the DPRK. The Secretary-General reiterates his calls on the DPRK to immediately desist from taking any further destabilising actions, to fully comply with its international obligations under all relevant Security Council resolutions, and to resume dialogue leading to sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
8. Med shot, Council members
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Linda Thomas-Greenfield, Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“A long range ballistic missile tests like the one conducted last week threaten not only the region, but the entire world. This is not a bilateral issue. This is a threat to every single one of us.”
10. Close up, Security Council president
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Kimihiro Ishikane, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“Let me turn our eyes to the reality we have been facing. During the long silence and inaction of this Council. Number one, North Korea has conducted repeated missile launches. North Korea has steadily developed diversified ranges, types and modalities of missiles and other weapons systems. That includes a self-proclaimed “underwater nuclear attack drone” which is said to generate a radioactive contaminated tsunami.”
12. Med shot, Council members
13. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Zhang Jun, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, China:
“For decades, it's legitimate concerns have been denied the attention and response they deserve. Recently, the United States has been conducting frequent military exercises in the periphery of the peninsula deploying strategic weapons such as nuclear powered aircraft carriers at B 52 bombers, which has greatly heightened the DPRK sense of insecurity. This is the main trigger for the current tensions on the peninsula.”
14. Med shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (English) Hwang Joonkook, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea to the United Nations:
“The DPRK regime is completely obsessed with its unlawful WMD programs, despite the severe and ongoing suffering of its own people. It is simply appalling to witness how the DPRK completely disregards international norms, and egregiously mocks and menaces the functioning and authority of the Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the principles of the UN Charter.”
16. Med shot, Council members
The UN senior official for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific, Khaled Khiari, warned that “the lack of unity and action in the Security Council does little to slow the negative trajectory on the Korean Peninsula” and “the DPRK is unconstrained, and other parties are compelled to focus on military deterrence.”
Addressing the Council on Monday (17 Apr), the Assistant Secretary-General for Middle East, Asia and the Pacific in the Departments of Political and Peacebuilding Affairs and Peace Operations said that DPRK’s launch last week is the first of a long-range solid-fuel ballistic missile.
Khiari added, “Solid-propellant missiles do not need to undergo fuelling prior to launch. They can thus be launched more quickly than liquid-propellant missiles. This also means that it may be more difficult to detect the preparation of a launch in a timely manner.”
According to him, “the Secretary-General strongly condemns the launch of yet another long-range ballistic missile by the DPRK” and “reiterates his calls on the DPRK to immediately desist from taking any further destabilising actions, to fully comply with its international obligations under all relevant Security Council resolutions, and to resume dialogue leading to sustainable peace and the complete and verifiable denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.”
Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US’ Permanent Representative to the United Nations, said that “a long range ballistic missile tests like the one conducted last week threaten not only the region, but the entire world.”
The ambassador added, “This is not a bilateral issue. This is a threat to every single one of us.”
The Permanent Representative of Japan, Kimihiro Ishikane, said, ““Let me turn our eyes to the reality we have been facing. During the long silence and inaction of this Council. Number one, North Korea has conducted repeated missile launches. North Korea has steadily developed diversified ranges, types and modalities of missiles and other weapons systems. That includes a self-proclaimed “underwater nuclear attack drone” which is said to generate a radioactive contaminated tsunami.”
On his turn, the ambassador of China, Zhang Jun, said that “for decades” DPRK’s “legitimate concerns have been denied the attention and response they deserve.”
Jun continued, “Recently, the United States has been conducting frequent military exercises in the periphery of the peninsula deploying strategic weapons such as nuclear powered aircraft carriers at B 52 bombers, which has greatly heightened the DPRK sense of insecurity. This is the main trigger for the current tensions on the peninsula.”
Hwang Joonkook, the Permanent Representative of the Republic of Korea, said that “the DPRK regime is completely obsessed with its unlawful WMD programs, despite the severe and ongoing suffering of its own people.”
For Joonkook, “it is simply appalling to witness how the DPRK completely disregards international norms, and egregiously mocks and menaces the functioning and authority of the Security Council, the Secretary-General, and the principles of the UN Charter.”
