Topic: North Korea
Country: Peru
Delegate Name: Grand Rapids City
School: Grand Rapids City High School
Topic page: background guide and all position papers All Peru position papers GLIMUN 2018 committees
Repeated violations of international law by the DPRK has forced Peru to remove ties from the country, ties that can be traced back to the 1980s in which we worked closely with North Korea. Their repeated testing of ballistic missiles, expansion of their nuclear program, and refusal to follow international law forced Peru to declare North Korean diplomatic officials persona non grata.
Peru has long been a supporter of the removal of nuclear weapons across the world. We are a signatory of the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons, along with other non-proliferation treaties, and believe that the removal of nuclear weapons are something that we as an international body should make the top priority. North Korea’s nuclear program poses a grave threat to this goal, and their building of nuclear weapons could cause other countries to follow suit. It is because of this goal that Peru wants the Security Council to pursue aggressive action against the behavior of North Korea. Peru calls on all nations to follow in declaring North Korean diplomatic officials persona non grata, and to cut off trade with the nation. The maintaining of international sanctions is also necessary to force the hand of the DPRK. Peru would also ask that we reaffirm resolutions past, such as Resolution 2397, condemning the missile tests, and freezing the assets of North Korean banking officials and their Ministry of the People’s Armed Forces should all be priorities of any resolutions or directives from the Security Council.
The time of standing idly by as North Korea continues to ignore the rule of international law is over. North Korea poses a threat to nuclear non-proliferation across the globe, and as a result action that is more aggressive than previous action by this council, along with a reaffirmation of past resolutions, is necessary. Not only is action by the United Nations important, but individual countries must act, and their actions should be protected by this body.
