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STORY: UN / DPRK
TRT: 5:58
SOURCE: UNIFEED
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LANGUAGE: ENGLISH / RUSSIAN / CHINESE / NATS
DATELINE: 31 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE
FILE – NEW YORK CITY
1. Wide shot, exterior, United Nations Headquarters
31 MAY 2024, NEW YORK CITY
2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific:
“We remain deeply concerned about growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We encourage all Member States, and Members of this Council, to seek unity, and for all parties to create an environment conducive to dialogue and cooperation. At this particularly difficult moment in securing global peace and security, it is imperative to de-escalate the rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula.”
4. Wide shot, Security Council
5. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific:
“The DPRK’s persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions, continues to undermine the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) that underpins it.”
6. Wide shot, Security Council
7. SOUNDBITE (English) Khaled Khiari, Assistant Secretary-General for the Middle East, Asia and the Pacific:
“As previously highlighted, there is a need for practical measures to reduce tensions, reverse the dangerous dynamic, and create space to explore diplomatic avenues. The Secretary-General has emphasised the importance of the importance of reestablishing communication channels, particularly establishing communication channels, particularly between military entities. Exercising maximum restraint is critical to avoid unintended entities. Exercising maximum restraint is critical to avoid unintended escalation.”
8. Wide shot, Security Council
9. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Alternate Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“Each of these launches successful or not, is a flagrant violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Each launch informs the DPRK of its capability gaps and allows Pyongyang to further advance its weapons programs. This Council has the responsibility to condemn these launches and to hold the DPRK accountable for its violations. But two Council Members, China and Russia continuously block the Security Council from speaking against the DPRK its behavior with one voice and makes us all less safe.”
10. Wide shot, Security Council
11. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood, Alternate Representative to the United Nations, United States:
“The DPRK has also unlawfully transferred dozens of ballistic missiles in over 11,000 containers of munitions to aid Russia's war against Ukraine, prolonging the suffering of the Ukrainian people.”
12. Wide shot, Security Council
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Yamazaki Kazuyuki, Permanent Representative of Japan to the United Nations:
“Japan urges North Korea not to conduct further launches and once again urges North Korea to immediately and fully comply with all relevant Security Council resolutions and to engage in diplomacy and accept the repeated offers of dialogue.”
14. Wide shot, Security Council
15. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Fu Cong, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“The US together with relevant countries plan to conduct a large scale joint military exercise on the Peninsula in August practicing a scenario involving a nuclear war. Such a plan will only increase tension and the risk of war and turmoil on the Peninsula, making the goal of long term peace and stability ever more elusive. China opposes the plan.”
16. Med shot, US Ambassador Wood
17. Med shot, North Korean Ambassador
18. SOUNDBITE (Chinese) Fu Cong, Permanent Representative of China to the United Nations:
“As the world’s number one military power and nuclear weapon State, the US should assume risk responsibilities in maintaining global strategic balance and stability, regional peace and security and the system of international arms control treaties instead of fanning the flames creating tension and exacerbating confrontation.”
19. Wide shot, Security Council
20. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations:
“Dear colleagues, let us recognize the obvious - the unstable situation around the Korean Peninsula is of benefit to Washington, which continues to confidently and deliberately pursue the path of confrontation instead of dialogue. Meanwhile, its closest allies in the region have become blind hostages of Washington's anti- Pyongyang policy. They're failing to recognize that by doing so, they are not strengthening their security but on the contrary, are bringing additional and unnecessary risks upon themselves.”
21. Wide shot, Security Council
22. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia to the United Nations:
“Today, some delegations have once again accused Russia of so called illegal military and technical cooperation with the DPRK. These allegations are absolutely unfounded. Russia is responsibly fulfilling its international obligations in its cooperation with our friendly neighbor. That cooperation is of an exclusively constructive and legitimate nature and most importantly, it does not threaten anyone, unlike the militaristic activities of the US and their allies.”
23. Wide shot, Security Council
24. SOUNDBITE (English) Song Kim, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
“Now that the Security Council meeting is a convene at the outrageous demand of the United States and its allies, to unjustly deal with exercise of the sovereign right of DPRK, our delegation echoes indignation of the entire Korean people to resolutely denounce it as an outrageous political provocation and fragrant violation of sovereignty.”
25. Wide shot, Security Council
26. SOUNDBITE (English) Song Kim, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea:
“The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will continue to proudly exercise its sovereign right, including the one to satellite launch regardless of any change in conditions and environment. And it will fully discharge its responsibility for the liability offending peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the in the region regardless of any external threats of all kinds.”
27. Wide shot, Security Council
UN senior official for political affair Khaled Khiari told the Security Council, “We remain deeply concerned about growing tensions on the Korean Peninsula. We encourage all Member States, and Members of this Council, to seek unity, and for all parties to create an environment conducive to dialogue and cooperation.”
At 10:44 PM local time on 27 May, the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) conducted what it described as “the launch of reconnaissance satellite Malligyong-1-1 aboard the new-type satellite carrier rocket” from the Sohae Satellite Launching Station. According to the DPRK, the launch failed “due to the air blast of the new-type satellite carrier rocket during the first-stage flight”, as a result of the “reliability of operation of the newly developed liquid oxygen and petroleum engine”. This follows the successful launch of a satellite on 21 November2023. In December 2023, the DPRK announced that it will launch three additional military satellites in
Khiari told the Council today (31 May) that “The DPRK’s persistent pursuit of nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programmes, in violation of relevant Security Council resolutions, continues to undermine the global nuclear disarmament and non-proliferation regime, and the Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) that underpins it.”
The Assistant Secretary-General also said, “As previously highlighted, there is a need for practical measures to reduce tensions, reverse the dangerous dynamic, and create space to explore diplomatic avenues.”
He reiterated that the Secretary-General has emphasized “the importance of reestablishing communication channels, particularly establishing communication channels, particularly between military entities.”
“Exercising maximum restraint is critical to avoid unintended entities. Exercising maximum restraint is critical to avoid unintended escalation,” he concluded.
US Ambassador Robert A. Wood said, “Each of these launches successful or not, is a flagrant violation of UN Security Council resolutions. Each launch informs the DPRK of its capability gaps and allows Pyongyang to further advance its weapons programs.”
Ambassador Wood reiterated, “This Council has the responsibility to condemn these launches and to hold the DPRK accountable for its violations. But two Council Members, China and Russia continuously block the Security Council from speaking against the DPRK its behavior with one voice and makes us all less safe.”
“The DPRK has also unlawfully transferred dozens of ballistic missiles in over 11,000 containers of munitions to aid Russia's war against Ukraine, prolonging the suffering of the Ukrainian people,” the US Ambassador added.
For his part, Japanese Ambassador Yamazaki Kazuyuki urged North Korea “not to conduct further launches and once again urges North Korea to immediately and fully comply with all relevant Security Council resolutions and to engage in diplomacy and accept the repeated offers of dialogue.”
Chinese Ambassador Fu Cong said, “The US together with relevant countries plan to conduct a large scale joint military exercise on the Peninsula in August practicing a scenario involving a nuclear war. Such a plan will only increase tension and the risk of war and turmoil on the Peninsula, making the goal of long-term peace and stability ever more elusive.”
“China opposes the plan,” Ambassador Fu emphasized.
The Chinese Ambassador also said, “As the world’s number one military power and nuclear weapon State, the US should assume risk responsibilities in maintaining global strategic balance and stability, regional peace and security and the system of international arms control treaties instead of fanning the flames creating tension and exacerbating confrontation.”
For her part, Russian Ambassador Anna Evstigneeva said, “let us recognize the obvious - the unstable situation around the Korean Peninsula is of benefit to Washington, which continues to confidently and deliberately pursue the path of confrontation instead of dialogue. Meanwhile, its closest allies in the region have become blind hostages of Washington's anti- Pyongyang policy.”
She continued, “They're failing to recognize that by doing so, they are not strengthening their security but on the contrary, are bringing additional and unnecessary risks upon themselves.”
Ambassador Evstigneeva also said, “Today, some delegations have once again accused Russia of so called illegal military and technical cooperation with the DPRK. These allegations are absolutely unfounded. Russia is responsibly fulfilling its international obligations in its cooperation with our friendly neighbor.”
She reiterated, “That cooperation is of an exclusively constructive and legitimate nature and most importantly, it does not threaten anyone, unlike the militaristic activities of the US and their allies.”
North Korean Ambassador Song Kim said, “Now that the Security Council meeting is a convene at the outrageous demand of the United States and its allies, to unjustly deal with exercise of the sovereign right of DPRK, our delegation echoes indignation of the entire Korean people to resolutely denounce it as an outrageous political provocation and fragrant violation of sovereignty.”
Ambassador Kim concluded, “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea will continue to proudly exercise its sovereign right, including the one to satellite launch regardless of any change in conditions and environment. And it will fully discharge its responsibility for the liability offending peace and security in the Korean Peninsula and the in the region regardless of any external threats of all kinds.”
