Week After Missile Tests, North Korea Is Head Of UN Disarmament Group

Friday, 3 June 2022newsdesk

North Korea has assumed the leadership of a top nuclear disarmament forum at the United Nations. The country will chair the forum for the next three weeks, due to the position being rotated among the member nations.

New Delhi, 03 June 2022

As per news report of NDTV, This comes a week after North Korean leader Kim Jong-Un firing several missile tests following President Joe Biden's visit to South Korea. The United Nations has actually imposed sanctions on Pyongyang after it conducted ballistic missile and nuclear tests. The forum they are assuming the Presidency for, is the Conference on Disarmament which is held in Geneva three times a year. It was created at a time when nuclear stockpiling was at its height, and thus was intended to stop the looming threat of nuclear war. The conference, however, has not proven to make any policies that have helped with disarmament since 1996.

Source -NDTV