{"id":34466,"date":"2017-12-02T17:09:32","date_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:09:32","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34466"},"modified":"2017-12-02T17:09:32","modified_gmt":"2017-12-02T12:09:32","slug":"unsc-to-meet-on-15-december-to-discuss-north-koreas-nuclear-missiles-programmes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tns.world\/?p=34466","title":{"rendered":"UNSC to meet on 15 December to discuss North Korea\u2019s nuclear, missiles programmes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>WASHINGTON Dec 02 (TNS):<\/strong> United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea\u2019s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses in the North Asian country, an annual meeting that its ally China has tried to prevent for the past three years.<\/p>\n<p>Japan\u2019s U.N. Ambassador Koro Bessho, president of the 15-member council for December, said several ministers were confirmed to attend the Dec. 15 meeting. He also said the meeting on human rights in North Korea could be held on Dec. 11.<\/p>\n<p>China has unsuccessfully tried to stop three previous human rights meetings by calling a procedural vote. A minimum of nine votes are needed to win such a vote and China, Russia, the United States, Britain and France cannot wield their vetoes.<\/p>\n<p>This year\u2019s meeting has the backing of nine members &#8211; the United States, France, Britain, Italy, Japan, Senegal, Sweden, Ukraine and Uruguay.<\/p>\n<p>Last year, the United States angered North Korea by blacklisting its leader Kim Jong Un for human rights abuses.<\/p>\n<p>A landmark 2014 U.N. report on North Korean human rights concluded that North Korean security chiefs &#8211; and possibly Kim himself &#8211; should face justice for overseeing a state-controlled system of Nazi-style atrocities.<\/p>\n<p>Michael Kirby, chairman of the U.N. Commission of Inquiry that drew up the report, said at the time that the crimes the team had cataloged were reminiscent of those committed by the Nazis during World War Two. \u201cSome of them are strikingly similar,\u201d he told Reuters.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea has repeatedly rejected accusations of human rights abuses and blames sanctions for a dire humanitarian situation. Pyongyang has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 over its ballistic missiles and nuclear programs.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDespite persistent sanctions and pressure by the U.S. and other hostile forces, my government concentrates all its efforts on improving people\u2019s livelihood and providing them with a better future,\u201d the North Korean Permanent Mission to the United Nations said in a statement on Nov. 14.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WASHINGTON Dec 02 (TNS): United Nations Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea\u2019s nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses in the North Asian country, an annual meeting that its ally China has tried to prevent for the past [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":34467,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,303],"tags":[304,733],"class_list":["post-34466","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-world","category-washington","tag-washington","tag-world"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34466","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=34466"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34466\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34468,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34466\/revisions\/34468"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/34467"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=34466"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=34466"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tns.world\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=34466"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}