North Korea, which has already tested six missiles in 2022, will preside over the Conference on Disarmament

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So far in 2022, North Korea has already carried out six weapons tests, a record for a single month which it had not reached since 2019. This has led to sanctions from the United States, and a conviction for the increased tension in the region. However, the concern does not seem to be unanimous.

It is that in the last few hours it became known that the Pyongyang regime will preside over the Conference on Disarmament next May of the United Nations, the only forum dedicated to multilateral negotiation on this issue.

This body opened its sessions this year under the Chinese presidency, a responsibility that the member countries assume on a rotating basis in alphabetical order and during a period of four weeks of work (outside recess periods).

Image of one of the missiles tested by North Korea in early January. Photo: AP

The Chinese presidency will end on February 18. Then it will be assumed by Colombia and later by Cuba.

According to the calendar of the Conference on Disarmament, North Korea will hold the presidency from May 30 to June 24, a fact that anticipates controversy within it and that has already begun to be denounced from civil society.

2022, record year of tests

Only since 2022 started, the Pyongyang regime has conducted six weapons tests, the last of which took place in the last few hours with two short-range ballistic missiles.

The United States has already issued a call to its allies to increase pressure on the North Korean regime.

“This is a country that threatens to attack other UN member states with missiles and perpetrates atrocities against its own people. Torture and starvation are routine in the prison camps, where there are an estimated 100,000 detainees in one of the most serious situations of human rights violations,” the NGO UN Watch said in a statement.

The entity indicated that it plans to hold protests in front of the United Nations headquarters in Geneva, where the Conference on Disarmament meets

The body, which is made up of 65 UN member states, is considered the backbone of international efforts of nuclear disarmament and has been the scene (including the analogous entity that preceded it) of the negotiations that gave rise to important arms limitation and disarmament treaties.

These include the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Agreement and the conventions for the Prohibition of Bacterial Weapons, and on Chemical Weapons, among others.

Source: EFE

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