On December 15, a ministerial-level meeting is expected to be held on the North’s non-proliferation activities
With one month of its two-year UN Security Council term remaining, Japan took up the rotating presidency on Friday ahead of a series of meetings to discuss the situation in North Korea.
On December 15, a ministerial-level meeting is expected to be held on the North’s non-proliferation activities, which is to be presided over by Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono, Japanese Ambassador to the United Nations Koro Bessho explained.
Among the high-ranking officials who are expected to attend the event are US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, as well as other foreign ministers and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres.
“This week we had the long range missile, ICBM launch, which again gathered the attention of the world and we feel that it needs to be discussed,” Bessho said at a news conference.
The open meeting will take place with special relevance in light of the launch Pyongyang carried out on Wednesday local time. The isolated state claimed the intercontinental ballistic missile was its “most powerful” yet, capable of hitting anywhere in the United States with a nuclear warhead.
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On the heels of Wednesday’s emergency Security Council session on the test-firing, however, he could not offer new details on what the council may decide to do to in response.
North Korea under previous sanctions resolutions is banned from conducting such tests but has continued to fire off a succession of missiles, some of which have flown over Japan, and conducted its sixth nuclear test in September.
