Everything about United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 totally explained
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1718 was adopted unanimously by the
United Nations Security Council on
14 October 2006. The
resolution, passed under
Chapter VII, Article 41, of the
UN Charter, imposes a series of economic and commercial
sanctions on the
Democratic People's Republic of Korea (the DPRK, or North Korea) in the aftermath of that nation's claimed
nuclear test of
9 October 2006.
Provisions
The resolution's provisions include:
- North Korea must "not conduct any further nuclear test or launch of a ballistic missile", "suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile programme" and "abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programmes in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner".
- The DPRK must also "return immediately to the six-party talks without precondition".
- Shipments of cargo going to and from North Korea may be stopped and inspected for weapons of mass destruction or associated items (however, there's no obligation placed on member states to perform such inspections).
- A ban is placed on imports and exports of "battle tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems", "related materiel including spare parts" and any other items identified by the sanctions committee.
- UN member states must freeze the overseas assets of individuals and companies involved with the DPRK's weapons programmes. An international travel ban is also placed on programme employees and their families.
- UN members are banned from exporting luxury goods to North Korea.
Sanctions committee
All the UN's member states are required to report to the Council on the measures they adopt in compliance with the resolution within the next 30 days.
The resolution also orders the establishment of a sanctions committee, made up of the UNSC's fifteen current members, to oversee its enforcement and report back to the Council at least every 90 days.
Enforcement
While the resolution does invoke
Chapter VII of the
United Nations Charter which allows for enforcement,
On 16 November 2006, the French Government enacted the provision allowing for DPRK ships to be searched in international waters.
North Korean reaction
North Korea's UN envoy
Pak Gil Yon walked out of the chamber after saying Pyongyang "totally rejects" the "unjustifiable" resolution.
He said it was "gangster-like" for the Security Council to have adopted a "coercive resolution" while neglecting US pressure on North Korea:
"If the United States increases pressure on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, the DPRK will continue to take physical countermeasures considering it as a
declaration of war."
The United States ambassador at the time,
John Bolton, said that it was the second time in three months that the representative of North Korea had rejected a unanimous resolution of the Security Council and walked out. (The other time was after the vote on
United Nations Security Council Resolution 1695.) He went on to add: "It is the contemporary equivalent of Nikita Khrushchev
pounding his shoe on the rostrum of the General Assembly."
On
17 October 2006, North Korea said the United Nations had effectively declared war on the country when it imposed sanctions for the country's nuclear test.
The DPRK foreign ministry said North Korea wanted peace, but wasn't afraid of war. A statement carried by the official Korean Central News Agency said that North Korea will "mercilessly strike" if its sovereignty is violated.
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