DPRK to chair arms control

Amidst of my series of posts analyzing the sanctions regime that has been established to counter North Korea's advances in pursuing weapons of mass destruction, it was announced that the country has been selected to be the Chair of the Disarmament Conference. It should been common sense that a country that is under UN sanctions for violating arms control agreements is not eligible to chair a conference on disarmament, but the regional rotation has taken precedence. I hope that the international community and public opinion can revisit this decision and remind why S/RES/1718, S/RES/1874 and S/RES/1985 were established in the recent years. The sanctions are still in place and they should be extended to within the UN system itself, because if even the organization that has established the sanctions can't uphold them, what message does that leaves to the other Member States?

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UN Watch - UN names North Korea chair of arms control agency