Democratic Peoples’ Republic of Korea

The First CWC Review Conference specifically recalled that there are states whose absence from the Convention has caused serious concern, and called upon all states not party to join the Convention without delay. That was in particular an address to countries in the Middle East (Israel as a signatory, Syria, Lebanon and Egypt as non-signatories) and certain parts of Asia (especially the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea). 

Adherence by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) is the other difficult nut to crack. The current multilateral (six-party) process does of course focus on the nuclear issue. Concerns about chemical weapons are frequently raised in the North Asian context, but there does not appear at this moment to be a regional process that addresses these... 

The consequences of the nuclear missile firings of 5 July 2006 by the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea (DPRK) brought to bear the hazards and grave dangers such activities pose to civil aviation. In this instance, missiles launched by DPRK crossed several international air routes over the high seas. It was revealed that, when extrapolating the projected paths of some of the missiles, it appeared that they could have interfered with many more air routes, both over Japan and the air space of the North Pacific Ocean. 

As at 1 November 2007, the 1988 Convention had been ratified, acceded to or approved by 182 States and formally confirmed by the European Community (extent of competence article 12), bringing the level of adherence to 94 per cent of all States in the world. Since the 2006 report of the Board on the implementation of article 123 was issued, the Democratic People s Republic of Korea and Liechtenstein have become parties to the Convention. The rates of adherence by region were as follows (see annex I for details) Africa, 94 per cent the Americas, 100 per cent Asia, 98 per cent Europe, 98 per cent and Oceania, 54 per cent. The Board calls on the 12 States4 that have not yet acceded to the Convention to implement the provisions of article 12 and to become parties to the Convention as soon as possible. 

Democratic People s Republic of Korea (19 March 2007) Mongolia (25 June 2003)... 

In 2007, the Democratic People s Republic of Korea and Liechtenstein acceded to the 1988 Convention, thus confirming the Convention as a truly universal instrument for the control of precursor chemicals. 

The Board notes that the Democratic People s Republic of Korea and Liechtenstein have joined the community of States parties to the 1988 Convention. The Board calls on Equatorial Guinea, the Holy See, Kiribati, the Marshall Islands, Namibia, Nauru, Palau, Papua New Guinea, Solomon Islands, Somalia, Timor-Leste and Tuvalu to become States parties to that important international treaty and thus ensure its universal application. 

Korea has a centuries-long tradition as an industrious, technically advcinced cind proudly independent nation. For much of this century the country was occupied by Japan. In 1948, Korea was divided along the 38th parallel to form the People s Democratic Republic of Korea (North Korea) and the Republic of Korea (South Korea). 

For the East European countries. Democratic People s Republic of Korea, People s Republic of Mongolia, Republic of Cuba and Socialist Republic of Vietnam Kultura, Hungarian Foreign Trading Company P. O. Box 149, H-1389 Budapest 62, Hungary... 

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In 1965, the world mine production of lead was 2.6 million Mg, with production increasing to 3.6 million Mg in 1975. The most important lead mining countries in 1975 were the United States (16.0% total world output), the Soviet Union (14.5%), Australia (10.0%), Canada (9.6%), Peru (5.5%), Mexico (4.5%), China (3.8%), Yugoslavia (3.5%), and Bulgaria (3.0%). In addition, Ireland, Japan, the Democratic People s Republic of Korea, Morocco, Poland, Spain, and Sweden each had over 2% of the total world production of lead. The estimated proven lead reserves of the world are 93 million Mg by metal content. 

The United Nations Security Council condemned the test firing by DPRK of missiles and adopted Resolution 1695 which requested all Member States to prevent the transfer of missile and missile-related items, materials, goods and technology to the Democratic People s Republic of Korea s missile or weapons of mass destruction programmes, as well as procurement of such items and technology from that country. It also addressed the transfer of financial resources in relation to those programmes. 

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