Statement by Ambassador Mitsuru Kitano at the IAEA Board of Governors Meeting starting on Monday, 4 June 2018 Agenda Item 6(d): Application of safeguards in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
2018/6/4
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Japan would like to stress that the nuclear and missile-related activities of North Korea are in violation of relevant United Nations Security Council and IAEA General Conference resolutions. We also emphasize that North Korea’s nuclear and missile development poses unprecedented, grave and imminent threat against our national security. We believe there will be no stability of the international community without achieving denuclearization of North Korea.
Mr. Chair,
Japan strongly hopes that the US - North Korea Summit meeting on 12 June will be an opportunity for making substantive progress towards the achievement of complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement, or CVID, of all weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, their related facilities, and ballistic missiles of all ranges in North Korea. Japan will continue to strictly enforce the sanction measures as stipulated in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and will work closely with the international community, in order to elicit concrete actions by North Korea to resolve its WMD and ballistic missile issues. Further, North Korea must retract its announcement of withdrawal from the NPT, and act strictly in accordance with its IAEA Safeguards Agreement. Japan reiterates that the UN Security Council resolutions clearly require North Korea to take these measures.
Mr. Chair,
In view of the current situation surrounding North Korea, Japan highly appreciates the Secretariat’s work to enhance the Agency’s ability and readiness to verify North Korea’s nuclear programme, which has been carried out within its mandate. The IAEA is the international organization that will assume a critical and central role of verifying North Korea’s nuclear programme, when progress for denuclearization is made. It is necessary that the Agency should be able to utilize its expertise, knowledge and experience in this undertaking. It is our strong hope that efforts by the countries concerned will achieve progress, creating an environment where the IAEA will play such critical roles at an early date. Japan is prepared to provide support as appropriate to meet the costs for personnel and equipment needs, in the event the IAEA resumes its activities in North Korea. Japan will continue to support relevant activities of the Agency, including those aimed at ensuring swift implementation of initial actions.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.
Japan would like to stress that the nuclear and missile-related activities of North Korea are in violation of relevant United Nations Security Council and IAEA General Conference resolutions. We also emphasize that North Korea’s nuclear and missile development poses unprecedented, grave and imminent threat against our national security. We believe there will be no stability of the international community without achieving denuclearization of North Korea.
Mr. Chair,
Japan strongly hopes that the US - North Korea Summit meeting on 12 June will be an opportunity for making substantive progress towards the achievement of complete, verifiable and irreversible dismantlement, or CVID, of all weapons of mass destruction including nuclear weapons, their related facilities, and ballistic missiles of all ranges in North Korea. Japan will continue to strictly enforce the sanction measures as stipulated in the relevant UN Security Council resolutions, and will work closely with the international community, in order to elicit concrete actions by North Korea to resolve its WMD and ballistic missile issues. Further, North Korea must retract its announcement of withdrawal from the NPT, and act strictly in accordance with its IAEA Safeguards Agreement. Japan reiterates that the UN Security Council resolutions clearly require North Korea to take these measures.
Mr. Chair,
In view of the current situation surrounding North Korea, Japan highly appreciates the Secretariat’s work to enhance the Agency’s ability and readiness to verify North Korea’s nuclear programme, which has been carried out within its mandate. The IAEA is the international organization that will assume a critical and central role of verifying North Korea’s nuclear programme, when progress for denuclearization is made. It is necessary that the Agency should be able to utilize its expertise, knowledge and experience in this undertaking. It is our strong hope that efforts by the countries concerned will achieve progress, creating an environment where the IAEA will play such critical roles at an early date. Japan is prepared to provide support as appropriate to meet the costs for personnel and equipment needs, in the event the IAEA resumes its activities in North Korea. Japan will continue to support relevant activities of the Agency, including those aimed at ensuring swift implementation of initial actions.
Thank you, Mr. Chair.