Guterres affirms the UN’s ‘clear commitment to the full, verifiable and irreversible denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula and DPRK’
United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres on Friday proclaimed unwavering UN commitment to a fully denuclearized North Korea, even as a divided Security Council allows more room for the isolated country to expand its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile programs.
Guterres, who arrived in South Korea on Thursday, later met with South Korean Foreign Minster Park Jin, who said the UN-led international community should be communicating a stern and unified message to North Korea that its nuclear ambitions won’t be tolerated. The unusually fast pace in weapons demonstrations also underscore brinkmanship aimed at forcing Washington to accept the idea of North Korea as a nuclear power and negotiating badly needed sanctions relief and security concessions from a position of strength, experts say. The U.S. and South Korean governments have also said the North is gearing up to conduct its first nuclear test since September 2017, when it claimed to have detonated a nuclear warhead designed for its ICBMs.
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