Non-proliferation and the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea – Security Council, 7638th meeting (English)
2 Mar 2016
Video:: 01:16:34
The Security Council has adopted unanimously Resolution 2270 (2016) on additional sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

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Security Council Imposes Fresh Sanctions on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, Unanimously Adopting Resolution 2270 (2016)
2 March 2016
SC/12267
The Security Council today condemned in the strongest terms the nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 6 January 2016 “in violation and flagrant disregard” of the relevant resolutions, its actions thereby constituting a challenge to the Treaty on Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons (NPT) and to peace and stability in the region and beyond…

Speaking after the adoption, the representative of the United States said the resolution went further than any other sanctions regime in two decades, emphasizing that multilateral pressure could be effective in bringing Pyongyang back to the table for serious and credible negotiations on denuclearization. Describing the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea as the only State that had conducted nuclear tests in the twenty-first century, routinely threatening other countries with nuclear annihilation, she noted that the chronic suffering of its people was the direct result of the choices made by their Government….

…The United Kingdom’s representative noted that the resolution contained some of the toughest measures ever taken by the Council, while emphasizing that it was not intended to have adverse humanitarian consequences, nor to affect those activities not prohibited by Council resolutions, nor to affect international relief efforts….

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Editor’s Note:
The full text of Resolution 2270(2016) is available at the link in the title above, but we include here paragraph 17 which may be unprecedented in terms of impacts on academic training and scholarly collaboration. Further, we observe that this sanction strategy may establish an unsettling precedent, or widened to apply beyond this sphere [for example, to bioterrorism and its supporting disciplines].

“17. Decides that all Member States shall prevent specialized teaching or training of DPRK nationals within their territories or by their nationals of disciplines which could contribute to the DPRK’s proliferation [of] sensitive nuclear activities or the development of nuclear weapon delivery systems, including teaching or training in advanced physics, advanced computer simulation and related computer sciences, geospatial navigation, nuclear engineering, aerospace engineering, aeronautical engineering and related disciplines;”