DPRK Ambassador to Italy, Chosen Soren Chairman Appointed

Kim Chun Guk (Photo: European Institute of Asian Studies)

DPRK state media reported on 18 May (Friday) that the Supreme People’s Assembly [SPA] Presidium appointed Kim Chun Guk as the country’s new ambassador to Italy.  Kim has served as the director of the DPRK Foreign Ministry’s European Bureau (department) for a number of years.  During the late 1990s and early 2000s Kim managed negotiations with the European Union and participated in the establishment of formal diplomatic relations with the United Kingdom in 2000, Spain in January 2001, Germany in March 2001 and Luxembourg, also in March 2001.  It is not clear what nonresident ambassadorships Kim will hold.  His predecessor in Rome, Han Tae Song, was also nonresident ambassador to Malta, Spain, Greece, Portugal, Cyprus and San Marino.  KCNA reports:

Kim Chun Guk was appointed as DPRK ambassador to Italy, according to a decree of the Presidium of the DPRK Supreme People’s Assembly.

Meanwhile, Ho Jong Man has been appointed chairman of Chosen Soren (General Association of Korean Residents in Japan; Chongryon), filling the vacancy left by the February 2012 death of So Man Sul.  KCNA/Kyodo report:

The pro-Pyongyang General Association of Korean Residents in Japan said Saturday Ho Jong Man, its chief vice chairman, has been chosen as its new chairman.

The move came after So Man Sul, former chairman of the group known as Chongryon, died of heart failure in February. So had been chairman since May 2001.

DPRK, China In Contact Over Captured Fishing Vessels

A view of the approximate location that 3 Chinese commercial fishing vessels and 29 crew members were captured on 8 May 2012 (Photo: Google image)

PRC state media reports that the Chinese government “is in close contact” with the DPRK on the status of 29 fishermen seized earlier this month in the Yellow (West) Sea.  On 8 May, three fishing vessels and 29 crew members were captured 158 km (98 miles) southwest of the DPRK city of Namp’o.  It is not clear if the crew were captured by members of the Korean People’s Army’s [KPA] Navy, DPRK personnel operating commercial vessels or, as Global Times reports, a group of Chinese and DPRK nationals.  Xinhua English reports:

“China is maintaining close communication with the DPRK side through relative channels in order to appropriately address the issue as soon as possible,” Hong said during a daily news briefing.

“The Chinese side has demanded that the DPRK side ensure the safety and legitimate rights of the Chinese crew members,” he added.

Media reports have stated that three vessels and their crews were seized by the DPRK on May 8.

 CRI English reports:

A number of media outlets recently reported that three Chinese fishing vessels were seized on May 8 at 38.05 degrees north and 123.57 degrees east within Chinese waters and the 29 crew members onboard were being kept hostage by a group of North Koreans.

The reports also state that the North Korean captors asked the abducted Chinese fishermen to call their families and tell them to pay ransom amounts in order for them to be released.

According to media reports, one fisherman who narrowly escaped being abducted, reported the incident to local maritime police in the city of Dalian, Dandong, and the fishing patrol forces in the provincial capital of Shenyang, immediately following his escape.

On the morning of last Wednesday, an abducted crew member apparently made a phone call using an unidentifiable number, claiming that the captors were requesting ransom amounts in return for the release of the Chinese fishermen.

The BBC reports:

The captors have asked for payment by Thursday for the release of the men and boats, the newspaper reported.

China’s foreign ministry said it was in touch with North Korean authorities and hoped to resolve the situation soon.

“We urged the North Korean side to guarantee the legal rights of the Chinese fishermen,” the ministry’s spokesman Hong Lei said.

He refused to confirm if the payment being demanded was a ransom, said an Associated Press report.

It is not clear if the boats were seized by North Korean authorities or kidnappers as some reports have suggested.

Pyongyang has not commented on the incident.

The owners of the boats have been reported as saying that the men were fishing in Chinese waters when the incident took place.

One of the owners, Zhang Dechang, told the Beijing News that the captors initially demanded payment of 1.2 million yuan (£119,300, $189,800) for the return of the men and boats, now reportedly in North Korea.

The captors then reportedly reduced their demand to 900,000 yuan.

Mr Zhang said that the captors included both North Koreans and Chinese, according to a Global Times report.

”They had guns; no one resisted. The captured fishermen have been locked in a small house, with no food to eat,” he was quoted as saying in the report.

China is North Korea’s closest ally. But the waters of the Yellow Sea, home to rich marine life, have seen clashes in the past between vessels from China and the two Koreas.

DPRK Diplomats in EU Present Credentials

DPRK Ambassador Kim Son Gyong (L) presents his credentials to the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic (R) (Photo: Office of the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

ONASA reported on 15 May (Tuesday) that Bakir Izetbegovic, President of Bosnia and Herzegovina (Chairman of the Presidency), met with and accepted a letter of credence from Kim Son Gyong (Kim So’n-kyo’ng) who was recently appointed ambassador.  According to the country’s news agency, Kim and Izetbegovic discussed “the possibilities of improved cooperation between the two countries with an emphasis on economic and cultural relations.”  Kim is resident ambassador in Romania.  This represents a slight shift in the DPRK’s diplomatic missions in eastern Europe, as the previous ambassador to Bosnia and Herzegovina was resident in Bulgaria.  In the spring of 2011, the DPRK established a small trade presence in Bosnia, and extended members of the Kim Family reside in Bosnia, including a grandson of Kim Jong Il’s who attends an international school south of the capital Sarajevo.

President of Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bakir Izetbegovic (L) poses for a photograph with DPRK Ambassador Kim Son Gyong (R) (Photo: Office of the President of Bosnia and Herzegovina)

DPRK Ambassador Hyon Hak Bong (File photo: Laura Hutton/Photocall)

Meanwhile, Hyon Hak Bong (resident in the UK) presented his credentials to Albert II, King of Belgium, on 9 May.  KCNA reports:

The king said though Belgium and the DPRK are far away from each other geographically, they have great potential to cooperate in various fields, adding that Belgium hopes for further development of the friendly and cooperative relations between the two countries.

He also expressed hope that the tensions would be defused on the Korean Peninsula and the north-south relations would improve

KPA Delegation Meets Lao Prime Minister

Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong (R) talks with VMar Ri Yong Ho (L), chief of the KPA General Staff and Presidium Member of the KWP Political Bureau, on 9 May 2012 (Photo: KPL)

DPRK and Lao state media reported on 10 May (Thursday) that a Korean People’s Army [KPA] delegation led by VMar Ri Yong Ho (Ri Yo’ng-ho), Chief of the KPA General Staff, met Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong on Wednesday (9 May).  KCNA reports:

Laos highly appreciates the achievements made by the party, government and army of the DPRK in building a thriving socialist nation and defending the country under the wise leadership of the great leaders, said Lao Prime Minister Thongsing Thammavong when receiving the DPRK’s high-ranking military delegation.

The delegation headed by Vice Marshal of the Korean People’s Army Ri Yong Ho, member of the Presidium of the Political Bureau of the C.C. of the Workers’ Party of Korea and chief of the General Staff of the KPA, paid a courtesy call on the prime minister of Laos on Wednesday.

At the meeting, Thongsing Thammavong, member of the Political Bureau of the C.C. of the Lao People’s Revolutionary Party, said the DPRK delegation’s visit provided an important opportunity of boosting the friendly relations between the two armies.

Leader Kim Jong Il developed the friendly ties between Laos and the DPRK provided by President Kim Il Sung, the prime minister noted.

The dear respected Kim Jong Un pays much attention to the development of the bilateral friendly relations, he added.

 Also, the same day, the KPA delegation met with Lao Vice Minister of Defense Sanyahak Phomvihane and other Lao People’s Army officials.

Attending the meeting were members of the high ranking military delegation headed by chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army Ri Yong Ho and the DPRK ambassador to Laos from the DPRK side and members of the Lao military delegation headed by Vice-Minister of Defense Sanyahak Phomvihane from the Lao side.

The two side exchanged views on further developing the friendly relations between the armies of the two countries and matters of mutual concern.

There was a welcome ceremony for the DPRK military delegation at the building of the Lao defense ministry on the same day.

The DPRK delegation laid a wreath before the Monument to Unknown Soldiers.

The Lao Ministry of Defense and the LPA also hosted a reception for the KPA delegation

Present there on invitation were members of the delegation led by Ri Yong Ho, chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army, and the DPRK ambassador to Laos.

Also attending the reception were Vice-Minister of Defence Sanyahak Phomvihane, a deputy director of the General Political Department and the deputy chief of the General Staff of the Laotian People’s Army and other military officials.

An art performance was given by artistes of Laos at the reception.

Russian Ambassador Commemorates End of Great Patriotic War

Russian Federation Ambassador Alexandr Timonin affixes a ribbon to a memorial wreath, commemorating the end of the Great Patriotic War (Photo: KCNA)

DPRK state media reported on 9 May (Wednesday) that newly appointed Russian Federation Ambassador to DPRK Alexandr Timonin, joined by other Pyongyang-based diplomats and Russians residing in the DPRK, visited the Liberation Tower on the anniversary of the end of the Great Patriotic War (the end of the Second World War in Europe).  Ambassador Timonin also delivered a floral wreath and visited a cemetery for Soviet soldiers killed in Korea during 1945-46.  KCNA reports:

Members of the Russian embassy here laid a wreath at the Liberation Tower on the occasion of the 67th anniversary of the great Patriotic War of Russia on May 9.

Present there were Alexandr Timonin, Russian ambassador, members of his embassy, diplomatic envoys of foreign embassies and the military attaches here.

They laid a wreath in the name of the embassy before paying a silent tribute to the memory of the fallen fighters of the Soviet army.

They laid a wreath and bunches of flowers at the cemetery of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army in Sadong district, Pyongyang city.

Earlier, they laid bunches of flowers at the liberation towers, statues and cemeteries of the fallen fighters of the Soviet Army in local areas.

New Russian Ambassador to DPRK Presents Credentials

Russian diplomat Alexander Timonin (highlighted) has been appointed his country’s ambassador to the DPRK. (Photo: Yoav Cerralbo/Korea Herald)

The Russian Federation has appointed a new Ambassador to the DPRK.  Alexandr Timonin has worked in the Russian Foreign Ministry’s Asia Department, served as an at-large ambassador and was an interim manager of Russia’s embassy in Pyongyang.  Timonin also gave an interview to Kommersant in 2011 on plans to construct an oil pipeline running through the DPRK into South Korea, which he said reached a “milestone” after outgoing Russian President Dmitry Medvedev met with Kim Jong Il in Ulan Ude in August 2011.  Timonin replaces Valery Sukhinin, who was appointed in 2007.  Sukhinin accompanied Kim Jong Il on his trip to Russia’s Far East in 2011.  He also attended a March 2012 concert by the U’nhasu Orchestra at which he danced with one of the performers and was greeted by Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n).  In April, Sukhinin made a farewell tour around Pyongyang, meeting with DPRK Foreign Minister Pak Ui Chun, Supreme People’s Assembly Presidium President Kim Yong Nam and receiving the DPRK Order of Friendship.

On 3 May (Thursday), Timonin presented his credentials to Kim Yong Nam.  KCNA reports:

Kim Yong Nam, president of the Presidium of the Supreme People’s Assembly of the DPRK, received credentials from Alexandr Timonin, Russian ambassador to DPRK, at the Mansudae Assembly Hall on May 3.

Kim had a talk with him after receiving the credentials.

DPRK Delegation Meets Chinese President

Chinese President Hu Jintao (R) shakes hands with Kim Yong Il, an alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) and also head of the international department of the WPK, during a meeting with a visiting WPK delegation headed by Kim in Beijing, capital of China, April 23, 2012. (Xinhua/Li Xueren)

KWP International Secretary Kim Yong Il (Kim Yo’ng-il) met with Chinese President Hu Jintao on Monday, 23 April, in Beijing.  The meeting took place after a strategic dialogue between the Korean Workers’ Party and the Chinese Communist Party on Saturday (21 April) and it occurred as DPRK state media amped up its attacks on South Korea’s political leadership and ahead of an upcoming US-PRC interaction.  Kim’s meeting with Hu most likely included discussions of the DPRK’s launch of the U’nha-3.  The Chinese leadership may also have restated its invitation for DPRK supreme leader, Kim Jong Un (Kim Cho’ng-u’n) to visit China.   Xinhua English reports:

Hu said the success of the Fourth WPK Conference and the fifth session of the 12th Supreme People’s Assembly, at which Kim Jong Un was elected the supreme leader, will be remembered as a major event in the political life of the WPK and the DPRK people. He described it as significant for the future in construction of the DPRK’s ruling party and nation.

The president expressed confidence that, under Kim Jong Un, the WPK and DPRK government will lead its people to blaze new trails and make new achievements in the cause of building a prosperous and strong country.

During the meeting, Hu said China-DPRK friendship was created and fostered by older generations of leaders and has become a common wealth of both countries. China will as always work with DPRK comrades to maintain high-level contact and exchanges between the political parties, promote practical cooperation and good-neighborly friendship and strengthen communication and coordination on major regional and international issues, according to Hu.

He added the two sides will make unremitting efforts to maintain peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula, realize long-term security of Northeast Asia and promote common development.

According to Kim Yong Il, Kim Jong Un’s election as First Secretary of the WPK and First Chairman of the National Defence Commission laid a solid foundation for the DPRK to carry through the unfulfilled will of late DPRK leaders Kim Il Sung and Kim Jong Il and advance the cause of revolution and construction.

Kim Yong Il said the DPRK is delighted to see China’s achievements under the leadership of the CPC in implementing scientific development and building a harmonious society.

He added the tradition of friendship between the ruling parties and the two countries was cherished by past leaders. The DPRK side is delighted to see strengthening relations between the two countries.

Kim Yong Il said cooperation between the WPK and CPC followed the teachings of late Chairman Kim Il Sung and late General Secretary Kim Jong Il and it will remain the firm stance of the WPK. He said the DPRK will as always work hard to advance relations between the ruling parties and the two countries.

Li Yuanchao, a member of the Political Bureau of the CPC Central Committee and head of the Organizational Department of the CPC Central Committee, also met with Kim Yong Il Monday afternoon.

Li hailed the friendship between China and the DPRK, pledging to enhance exchanges, cooperation and strategic communication between the two sides so as to further bilateral ties.

Kim Yong Il reaffirmed the DPRK’s will to deepen exchange and cooperation with China in various fields.

Kim’s visit to China and his meetings on Monday with President Hu, Li Yuanchao and his Saturday meeting with Wang Jiarui may have been arranged on short notice.  Hankyoreh reports:

While there was no word on whether the two countries discussed North Korea’s recent rocket launch at the talks, sources suggested the discussions focused on the political situation in the wake of that launch.

A diplomatic source in Beijing said, “To the rest of the world, China is clearly stating its opposition to additional sanctions that might destabilize North Korea, but to Pyongyang it gave a clear warning that it should not engage in any further provocations that might make the situation worse, such as a third nuclear test.

“We also believe North Korea briefed Beijing on the appointment of Kim Jong-un to first secretary at the recent WPK representatives’ meeting,” the source added.

The talks between Pyongyang and Beijing came at a chilly time between the countries. China was unusually critical of North Korea after its rocket launch and didn’t stand in the way of a United Nations Security Council president’s statement condemning Pyongyang’s actions.

As the meeting took place on Saturday, typically a day off, and the North Korean delegation arrived via Air China on a day when there were no Beijing flights for the North Korean carrier Air Koryo, observers suggested Pyongyang was troubled by China’s strong response and hurriedly arranged the talks in an effort at appeasement.

Xinhua said these were the second strategic talks between North Korea and China, after a first set in North Korea in June 2011.

DPRK, PRC Hold “Strategic Dialogue” in Beijing

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo (R) shakes hands with Kim Yong Il, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the central committee of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), in Beijing, China, April 22, 2012. Dai met with a WPK delegation led by Kim Yong Il here on Sunday. (Xinhua/Ju Peng)

Korean Workers’ Party International Secretary Kim Yong Il (Kim Yo’ng-il) traveled to China during the weekend.  On Saturday (21 April) Kim held what DPRK state media called a “strategic dialogue” with senior officials of the Chinese Communist Party led by Wang Jiarui.  Kim also met with State Councilor Dai Bingguo.  These were the first reported meetings between DPRK and Chinese officials since an early April visit to the DPRK by a PLA delegation led by Maj. Gen.  Qian Lihua and the first reported DPRK-PRC interaction since the 12 April launch of the U’nha-3.  The DPRK-PRC interactions occurred after military analysts indicated that a transporter erector launcher [TEL] vehicle used during a DPRK military parade on 15 April was either imported from China, or manufactured using Chinese specs.  KCNA reports:

A strategic dialogue between the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Communist Party of China took place in Beijing on Saturday.

Present there from the WPK side were members of the WPK delegation led by Kim Yong Il, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the C.C., the WPK, and Ji Jae Ryong, DPRK ambassador to China, and from the CPC side Wang Jiarui, head of the International Liaison Department of the C.C., the Communist Party of China, and members of the department.

Both sides exchanged views on further developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and two countries and matters of mutual concern.

The dialogue proceeded in a comradely and friendly atmosphere.

Wang Jiarui gave a reception in honor of the WPK delegation in the evening.

Yonhap reports:

Senior officials from North Korea and China held their talks in Beijing and exchanged views about matters of mutual concern, Pyongyang’s state media reported Sunday, in the first high-level meeting since the North’s botched rocket launch.

The “strategic dialogue” between Kim Yong-il, the secretary for international affairs at the North Korean Workers’ Party, and Wang Jiarui, the head of the Chinese Communist Party’s international department, took place on Saturday, the North’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported.

“Both sides exchanged views on further developing the friendly and cooperative relations between the two parties and two countries, and matters of mutual concern,” the KCNA said in the report.

North Korea defied international warnings and launched a long-range rocket on April 13, but the launch flopped as the rocket crashed after flying for a couple of minutes.

Pyongyang claimed the launch was designed to put a satellite into orbit, but Seoul, Washington and others blasted it as a cover for testing improved ballistic missile technology.

Last week, China joined a statement by the United Nations Security Council that “strongly condemned” the North’s launch and warned it will impose new sanctions if Pyongyang carries out another launch of a long-range rocket or a nuclear test.

Kim Yong Il also met with Dai Bingguo.  Xinhua English reports:

Chinese State Councilor Dai Bingguo met with a Workers’ Party of Korea (WPK) delegation from the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) in Beijing on Sunday .

The delegation was headed by Kim Yong Il, alternate member of the Political Bureau and secretary of the central committee of the WPK.

Dai applauded the traditional friendship between the DPRK and the Chinese sides, saying that China is willing to work together with the DPRK to lead the friendship and cooperation between the two nations to new heights.

Dai said that he was sure the DPRK party, government and people will continue to make new achievements in their aim of building a prosperous country.

During their meeting, Kim Yong Il agreed with Dai’s appraisal on the DPRK-China relationship. He said the DPRK attaches great importance to the friendship and cooperation with China. He added that the DPRK will follow the instructions by late general secretary Kim Jong Il and first secretary Kim Jong Un of the WPK to make all-out efforts to advance the traditional DPRK-China friendship in a sustainable way.

DPRK Foreign Ministry Knocks UNSC Presidential Statement

Photo: KCNA-Yonhap

With reports that it retracted an invitation to the IAEA, the DPRK’s Foreign Ministry released a statement on 17 April (Tuesday) which defended its launch of the U’nha-3 rocket.  It also said the country would not “be bound” to the 29 February “Leap Day Deal” it made with the United States.   The statement was a direct response to a 16 April 2012 United Nations Security Council [UNSC] presidential statement which characterized the launch as a violation of existing UN sanctions.  Unlike other statements from the DPRK Foreign Ministry did not contain any overt threats and minimized nuclear and ballistic invocations.  KCNA reports:

The U.S. and its followers committed a hostile act of violating the DPRK’s right to satellite launch by abusing the United Nations Security Council again.

On April 16 the UNSC issued a statement of its chairman “condemning” the DPRK’s satellite launch for peaceful purposes.

The DPRK took steps to show the sincerity and transparency of the satellite launch for peaceful purposes to the maximum from A to Z as an exception and aroused sympathy of broad world public.

The U.S., finding it hard to conceal the truth, after hatching all sorts of dastardly trick to prevent the peaceful nature of the DPRK’s satellite launch from being confirmed objectively and persistently term it a long-range missile launch, imposed upon the UNSC its brigandish demand that the DPRK should not be allowed to launch even a satellite for peaceful purposes.

The UNSC has been abused under the pressure of high-handed and arbitrary practices of the U.S. and its catastrophic consequences have been felt still today in various parts of the world.

UNSC resolutions 1718 and 1874 which the hostile forces regard as the “ground” to take issue with the DPRK’s satellite launch are a product of their high-handed policy for antagonizing and oppressing the DPRK and the height of illegality they faked up at random, disregarding even universally accepted international law.

It is the brigandish essence of these resolutions that those countries which refuse to meekly obey the U.S. should not be allowed to develop their national defence capability and to this end they should be deprived of even their right to launch satellites for peaceful purposes.

Such unreasonable double standards are possible at the UNSC because such standards are in line with the interests of those countries keen to monopolize such cutting-edge technology as satellite launch.

The present developments clearly show that the principle of equality as regards sovereignty clarified in the UN Charter is a mere high-sounding word and justice should be protected by one’s own efforts.

The DPRK Foreign Ministry declares as follows in connection with the grave infringement upon the right of the sovereign state to launch satellites for peaceful purposes:

Firstly, we resolutely and totally reject the unreasonable behavior of the UNSC to violate the DPRK’s legitimate right to launch satellites.

It is the unshakable principle of the army and people of the DPRK not to tolerate even the slightest element to deride and encroach upon the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country.

Secondly, we will continue exercising the independent right to use space recognized by the universally accepted international laws which are above the UNSC resolutions.

We will expand and strengthen space development institutions and continue launching a variety of working satellites needed for economic development of the country including geostationary satellites under the state plan for space development.

Nothing can stand in the way of the DPRK’s space development for peaceful purposes.

Thirdly, as the U.S. violated the Feb. 29 DPRK-U.S. agreement through its undisguised hostile acts, we will no longer be bound to it.

We have repeatedly clarified from the outset that we will sincerely implement the Feb. 29 agreement to the last and took practical steps to implement it as the satellite launch for peaceful purposes is an issue quite different from the agreement.

No sooner had the DPRK’s plan for satellite launch been announced than the U.S. suspended the process for the provision of food pursuant to the DPRK-U.S. agreement under that pretext. This time, the U.S. spearheaded the hostile act of encroaching upon the DPRK’s legitimate right to launch satellites by abusing the position as chairman of the UNSC.

The U.S. finally reneged on its promise that “it respects the sovereignty of the DPRK and has no hostile intent toward it” in practice, totally violating the Feb. 29 agreement.

We have thus become able to take necessary retaliatory measures, free from the agreement. The U.S. will be held wholly accountable for all the ensuing consequences.

Peace is very dear for us but the dignity of the nation and the sovereignty of the country are dearer for us.

The UNSC presidential statement said:

1. The Security Council strongly condemns the 13 April 2012 (local time) launch by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK).

2. The Security Council underscores that this satellite launch, as well as any launch that uses ballistic missile technology, even if characterized as a satellite launch or space launch vehicle, is a serious violation of Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009).

3. The Security Council deplores that such a launch has caused grave security concerns in the region.

4. The Security Council demands that the DPRK not proceed with any further launches using ballistic missile technology and comply with resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009) by suspending all activities related to its ballistic missile program and in this context reestablish its preexisting commitments to a moratorium on missile launches.

5. The Security Council agrees to adjust the measures imposed by paragraph 8 of resolution 1718 (2006), as modified by resolution 1874 (2009). The Security Council directs the Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) to undertake the following tasks and to report to the Security Council within fifteen days: a) Designate additional entities and items; b) Update the information contained on the Committee’s list of individuals, entities, and items (S/2009/205 and INFCIRC/254/Rev.9/Part.1), and update on an annual basis thereafter; c) Update the Committee’s annual work plan.

6. The Security Council further agrees that, if the Committee has not acted pursuant to the paragraph above within fifteen days, then the Security Council will complete action to adjust these measures within an additional five days.

7. The Security Council demands that the DPRK immediately comply fully with its obligations under Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009), including that it: abandon all nuclear weapons and existing nuclear programs in a complete, verifiable and irreversible manner; immediately cease all related activities; and not conduct any further launches that use ballistic missile technology, nuclear tests or any further provocation.

8. The Security Council calls upon all Member States to implement fully their obligations pursuant to resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009).

9. The Security Council expresses its determination to take action accordingly in the event of a further DPRK launch or nuclear test.