Deputy Foreign Minister: "North Korean Dispatch Troops Sacrificed as 'Bullet Shields'... Serious Security Threat to the International Community"

Deputy Foreign Minister Kang In-seon attended an international organization discussing disarmament and pointed out that "North Korea is providing weapons and ballistic missiles to Russia and deploying more than 11,000 soldiers, sacrificing them as cannon fodder for the regime," adding that "North Korea's illegal activities pose a serious security threat to the entire international community."

Kang In-seon, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs, is delivering the keynote speech at the "2025 Geneva Disarmament Conference (CD) High-Level Session" held on the 24th (local time) at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland. Ministry of Foreign Affairs

On the 24th (local time), Deputy Minister Kang delivered a keynote speech at the '2025 Geneva Disarmament Conference (CD) High-Level Session' held at the United Nations Office at Geneva, Switzerland, expressing concern over the decline of international disarmament and non-proliferation norms. The Russia-Ukraine war has reached its third year since its outbreak. He continued, "North Korea is violating numerous United Nations Security Council resolutions and continuing its nuclear and missile development, going against the international community's efforts to achieve peace," urging, "North Korea must abandon all weapons of mass destruction and missile programs in a 'complete, verifiable, and irreversible manner' and return to denuclearization talks."

Deputy Minister Kang also called on the five nuclear-weapon states (the United States, the United Kingdom, France, China, and Russia) to engage in bilateral and multilateral consultations to enhance transparency and mutual trust. He emphasized the need to establish international norms and strengthen international cooperation regarding new technologies such as artificial intelligence (AI).

The CD is the only multilateral disarmament negotiation body in the international community, established in 1979. It serves as the cradle for multilateral disarmament and non-proliferation treaties such as the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the Outer Space Treaty.

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