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The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, told the Security Council that weapon and ammunition transfers must be compliant with relevant Security Council resolutions and sanctions, and “any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Russian Federation, must entirely abide by the relevant Security Council sanctions.” UNIFEED
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STORY: UN / DPRK RUSSIA
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DATELINE: 28 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY / FILE

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FILE - NEW YORK CITY

1. Wide shot, exterior United Nations Headquarters

28 JUNE 2024, NEW YORK CITY

2. Wide shot, Security Council
3. Wide shot, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Izumi Nakamitsu speaking
4. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“Any transfer of weapons and ammunition must be compliant with the applicable international legal framework, including of course, relevant Security Council resolutions and the sanctions regimes that they establish. As the Secretary-General has stated, any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Russian Federation, must entirely abide by the relevant Security Council sanctions.”
5. Med shot, DPRK Ambassador Kim Song
6. SOUNDBITE (English) Izumi Nakamitsu, High Representative for Disarmament Affairs:
“All relevant States must avoid taking any actions that could lead to further escalation not only in the Korean peninsula but also in other regions and undermine even more the arms control and non-proliferation regime.”
7. Wide shot, Executive Director of Conflict Armament Research (CAR)
8. SOUNDBITE (English) Jonah Leff, Executive Director, Conflict Armament Research (CAR):
“In January 2024, a CAR field investigation team physically documented the remnants of a ballistic missile that struck Kharkiv, Ukraine second largest city on January 2nd, 2024. Mr. President, these are the remnants of the missile that we encountered. CAR documented the missile’s rocket motor, its tail section, almost 300 internal components manufactured by 26 companies from eight countries and territories. Based on several unique features observed during the documentation, CAR determined that this missile was either a KN23 or KN24 manufactured in the DPRK in 2023.”
9. Wide shot, US Ambassador Robert A. Wood addressing Council
10. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, United States:
“Earlier this month, Vladimir Putin visited Pyongyang for a state visit where he and Kim Jong Un signed a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, which included mutual defence obligations. The implications of this partnership against the backdrop of ongoing military cooperation, should elicit grave concern from all of us here. Finally, it is critical to underscore that all Security Council resolutions on the DPRK remain in effect. All UN member states are obligated to implement relevant provisions and the Council must take seriously its responsibility to vigilantly monitor implementation to counter the DPRK’s threats to international peace and security.”
11. Wide shot, Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya addressing Council
12. SOUNDBITE (Russian) Vasily Nebenzya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Russian Federation:
“I now turn to the conjectures about Russia's use as part of the special military operation in Ukraine of North Korean missiles. This is completely false. The so called inspections report of the sanctions experts about this is a classical made-to-order material which was comprised not by professionals, with numerous procedural errors, and logical inconsistencies. And the wreckage from unidentified missiles were so kindly provided to the so called experts - who included not a single professional ballistics professional - by the Kyiv regime. They provided this. A confirmation of veracity of the wreckage in the report of these experts has not been provided.”
13. Med shot, Song
14. SOUNDBITE (English) Kim Song, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK):
“On June 2003, the attack missiles provided to Ukraine authorities by the United States, hit Russian territory Sebastopol, causing more than 150 innocent civilians killed, including two children. This shows that the country which should be called to account and condemned at a Security Council, are none other than the United States and its followers, which supplied weapons of mass destruction to Ukraine.”
15. Wide shot, Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya addressing Council
16. SOUNDBITE (English) Sergiy Kyslytsya, Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Ukraine:
“We are concerned that further developments in menacing direction may follow the last week signing by the Russian and DPRK leaders of the so-called Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, as this agreement effectively paves the way for further deepening of military cooperation between Russia and DPRK. The impact on security situation, both in our region and on the Korean peninsula, could be detrimental.”
17. Wide shot, ambassadors outside the Council
18. SOUNDBITE (English) Robert A. Wood Alternate Representative for Special Political Affairs in the United Nations, United States:
“Russia's elimination of the 1718 committee panel of experts unilaterally terminated 14 years of Council consensus supporting panel’s work. However, Russia and the DPRK cannot bury public reporting, including on the unlawful arms transfers from the DPRK to Russia. Independent experts continue to publish reporting that fills this gap and keeps violations in the public eye. We condemn in the strongest possible terms, those unlawful transfers, which have significantly contributed to Russia's ability to conduct its war against Ukraine.”
19. Pan right, Ambassadors walk away

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The High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu, today (28 Jun) told the Security Council that weapon and ammunition transfers must be compliant with relevant Security Council resolutions and sanctions, and “any relationship that any country has with the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, including the Russian Federation, must entirely abide by the relevant Security Council sanctions.”

Addressing a Council open briefing convened by France, Japan, the Republic of Korea (ROK), the UK, and the United States to discuss the issue of unlawful arms transfers from the DPRK, Nakamitsu told the Council that “all relevant States must avoid taking any actions that could lead to further escalation not only in the Korean peninsula but also in other regions and undermine even more the arms control and non-proliferation regime.”

The Executive Director of the Conflict Armament Research (CAR) organization, Jonah Leff, told the Council that a field investigation team had physically documented the remnants of a ballistic missile that struck Kharkiv, Ukraine on 2 January.

Showing Council Members a large photo print out, Leff said, “based on several unique features observed during the documentation, CAR determined that this missile was either a KN23 or KN24 manufactured in the DPRK in 2023.”

US Ambassador Robert A. Wood told the Council that Russian President Vladimir Putin’s visit to Pyongyang and the signing of a comprehensive strategic partnership agreement, “against the backdrop of ongoing military cooperation, should elicit grave concern from all of us here.”

Wood said it was “critical to underscore that all Security Council resolutions on the DPRK remain in effect. All UN member states are obligated to implement relevant provisions and the Council must take seriously its responsibility to vigilantly monitor implementation to counter the DPRK’s threats to international peace and security.”

Russian Ambassador Vasily Nebenzya for his part said, “conjectures about Russia's use as part of the special military operation in Ukraine of North Korean missiles” were “completely false.”

Nebenzya said the “so-called inspections report of the sanctions experts about this is a classical made-to-order material which was comprised not by professionals, with numerous procedural errors, and logical inconsistencies. And the wreckage from unidentified missiles were so kindly provided to the so called experts - who included not a single professional ballistics professional - by the Kyiv regime.”

DPRK Ambassador Kim Song said, “on June 2003, the attack missiles provided to Ukraine authorities by the United States, hit Russian territory Sebastopol, causing more than 150 innocent civilians killed, including two children. This shows that the country which should be called to account and condemned at a Security Council, are none other than the United States and its followers, which supplied weapons of mass destruction to Ukraine.”

Ukraine’s Ambassador Sergiy Kyslytsya expressed concern “that further developments in menacing direction may follow the last week signing by the Russian and DPRK leaders of the so-called Treaty of Comprehensive Strategic Partnership, as this agreement effectively paves the way for further deepening of military cooperation between Russia and DPRK.”

Outside the Council, flanked by a group of ambassadors, Wood said, “Russia's elimination of the 1718 committee panel of experts unilaterally terminated 14 years of Council consensus supporting panel’s work. However, Russia and the DPRK cannot bury public reporting, including on the unlawful arms transfers from the DPRK to Russia. Independent experts continue to publish reporting that fills this gap and keeps violations in the public eye. We condemn in the strongest possible terms, those unlawful transfers, which have significantly contributed to Russia's ability to conduct its war against Ukraine.”

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