UNITED NATIONS, Feb 6: The UN Secretariat has not seen a report submitted to the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee that states that North Korea has tried to protect its nuclear missiles, UN Spokesman Stephane Dujarric told Sputnik.
The sanctions committee found evidence that North Korea attempts to disperse the assembly, storage, and testing locations of the country’s nuclear complex to avoid being destroyed in military strikes, Reuters said after seeing the report on Monday.
“Those reports are addressed directly to the UN Security Council Sanctions Committee,” Dujarric said on Tuesday. “I have not seen the report, and we do not see them.”
The information came just a day before US Special Representative for North Korea Stephen Biegun will travel to Pyongyang for talks to prepare for the second summit between President Donald Trump and North Korean Leader Kim Jong Un.
On January 18, the White House announced that Trump planned to meet with the North Korean leader in late February. The first meeting of the two leaders took place in June 2018, when the parties reaffirmed their commitment to the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula.
The situation on the Korean Peninsula has improved since the beginning of 2018 during which time North and South Korea concluded important agreements and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un and US President Donald Trump held a historic summit in Singapore in June 2018. The two leaders concluded an agreement stipulating that North Korea would make efforts to promote the complete denuclearization of the peninsula in exchange for the United States and South Korea freezing their military exercise and a potential lifting of US sanctions.
(AGENCIES)
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