{"id":1502432,"date":"2022-06-03T11:35:07","date_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:35:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502432"},"modified":"2022-06-03T11:35:12","modified_gmt":"2022-06-03T15:35:12","slug":"north-korea-takes-over-un-nuclear-disarmament-body","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/north-korea-takes-over-un-nuclear-disarmament-body\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Takes Over UN Nuclear Disarmament Body"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">16<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fnorth-korea-takes-over-un-nuclear-disarmament-body%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1502432&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div><\/div>\n<p>By Emma Farge<\/p>\n<p>GENEVA (Reuters)\u2014<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">North <\/span><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Korea<\/span>, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a U.N. body aimed at striking disarmament deals amid scorn from critics.<\/p>\n<p>This year<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> North <\/span><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Korea <\/span>has tested a flurry of ballistic missiles \u2013 also banned by UNSC resolutions \u2013 and appears to be preparing to conduct a new nuclear test for the first time since 2017.<\/p>\n<p>It gained the presidency of the Conference on Disarmament because it rotates alphabetically among its 65 members.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The DPRK remains committed to contributing to global peace and disarmament and attaches importance to the work of the conference,&#8221; Ambassador Han Tae Song told the Geneva meeting, saying it was an &#8220;honour and a privilege&#8221; to hold the role.<\/p>\n<p>The nuclear-armed state fired several missiles last week, including one thought to be its largest intercontinental ballistic missile.<\/p>\n<p>Western envoys took turns to condemn Pyongyang&#8217;s actions on Thursday, with Australia describing them as &#8220;destabilising&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>However, they did not heed a call to walk-out of the meeting as requested by dozens of NGOs, witnesses said. Instead, some diplomatic missions sent lower-level representatives than the ambassadors who would typically be expected to attend.<\/p>\n<p>The overall reaction from the floor was seen by observers as mild compared to the reaction to Syria&#8217;s presidency of the same body in 2018. During that meeting, Canada read out the testimonies of Syrian chemical attack survivors&#8217; accounts in protest.<\/p>\n<p>Hillel Neuer, executive director of UN Watch, which monitors the performance of the global body, said<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">North <\/span><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Korea<\/span>\u2018s chairmanship would &#8220;seriously undermine the image and credibility of the United Nations&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>Expectations for this series of meetings under Pyongyang&#8217;s presidency were in any case low. The Conference on Disarmament \u2014 the world&#8217;s only multilateral forum for disarmament \u2014 has not reached a deal since the Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban Treaty in 1996.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This can only highlight the irrelevance of the CD in the current context,&#8221; said Marc Finaud, an expert at the Geneva Centre for Security Policy, said of<span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\"> North <\/span><span class=\"highlight\" data-qa-component=\"highlight-text\">Korea<\/span>\u2018s role.<\/p>\n<p>(Reporting by Emma Farge; Additional reporting by Josh Smith in Seoul; Editing by Alison Williams)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>By Emma Farge GENEVA (Reuters)\u2014North Korea, which is under sanctions for developing nuclear weapons in defiance of United Nations Security Council Resolutions, has taken over as head of a U.N.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":66,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1502432","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/66"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1502432"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1502432\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1502432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1502432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1502432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}