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United Nations Security Council Resolution 2094 on Nuclear Nonproliferation in North Korea

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  20 January 2017

Klara Tothova Jordan
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On March 7, 2013, the United Nations Security Council unanimously passed Resolution 2094 (2013), bolstering the scope of United Nations (UN) sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK). The Resolution represents the international community’s latest attempt at applying diplomatic and economic pressure to the DPRK so as to curb its nuclear weapons program. The resolution is also a response to the DPRK’s third nuclear test on February 12, 2013 and its subsequent threat to carry out preemptive nuclear strikes against the United States and South Korea. Acting under Chapter VII of the UN Charter, the Security Council responded to these grave violations of its existing Resolutions—seen as clear threats to international peace and security—by building upon, strengthening, and expanding the scope of the sanctions regime against the DPRK.

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International Legal Documents
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International Legal Materials , Volume 52 , Issue 5 , October 2013 , pp. 1196 - 1208
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Copyright © American Society of International Law 2013

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References

* This text was reproduced and reformatted from the text available at the United Nations Web site (visited November 11, 2013), http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=S/RES/2094(2013).

1 S.C. Res. 2094, U.N. Doc. S/RES/2094 (Mar. 7, 2013).

2 U.N. Charter art. 41.

3 Treaty on the Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons, opened for signature July 1, 1968, 21 U.S.T. 483, 729 U.N.T.S. 161.

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5 S.C. Res. 825, U.N. Doc. S/RES/825 (May 11, 1993).

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7 S.C. Res. 1718, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1718 (Oct. 14, 2006).

8 S.C. Res. 1874, U.N. Doc. S/RES/1874 (June 12, 2009).

9 S.C. Res. 2087, U.N. Doc. S/RES/2087 (Jan. 22, 2013).

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13 See, e.g., Secretary of State John Kerry, Remarks with Minister of Foreign Affairs of the Republic of Korea Yun Byung-se After Their Meeting (Apr. 2, 2013), http://www.state.gov/secretary/remarks/2013/04/207011.htm Google Scholar; see also Benjamin, Habib, Deconstructing UNSC Resolution 2094: The Response to North Korea’s Third Nuclear Test Google Scholar, Benjamin, Habib Blog Dr (Mar. 9, 2013), http://drbenjaminhabib.wordpress.com/2013/03/09/deconstructing-unsc-resolution-2094 Google Scholar.

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