GLAZEL V.

GONZAGA BSA 1-B

What are the challenges faced by the United Nations in maintaining global

security in North Korea?

 Failure of Global Governance: The United Nations’ Failure to Stop North Korean Nuclear
Weapons. North Korea has always been at the spotlight of the international stage with its
rogue regime threatening the safety and security of millions of lives through nuclear
weapons procurement. Although the United Nations have pushed sanction efforts to slow
down and dissuade the North Koreans from developing these weapons, their efforts by
large have failed.
 Authorities in North Korea routinely send perceived opponents of the government to
secretive prison camps where they face torture, starvation rations, and forced labor.
 The North Korean government’s pretrial detention and criminal investigation system
remained arbitrary, violent, cruel, and degrading. Ordinary citizens have no access to
North Korea’s laws, which are vaguely worded and lack definitions.
 North Korea has ratified five human rights treaties, but it has ignored its obligations under
all of them. A 2014 UN Commission of Inquiry on human rights in North Korea found that
the government committed gross, systematic, and widespread rights abuses, including
extermination, murder, enslavement, torture, imprisonment, rape, forced abortions, and
other sexual violence. It recommended the UN Security Council refer the situation to the
International Criminal Court (ICC). The North Korean government has repeatedly denied
the commission’s findings and refused to cooperate with the Office of the UN High
Commissioner for Human Rights in Seoul or the UN special rapporteur on the situation of
human rights in North Korea.
 Although the US-led efforts to place North Korea’s human rights violations on the UN
Security Council agenda as a threat to international peace and security between 2014 and
2017, since 2018 its mission to the UN failed to do so, and there was no formal council
discussion of North Korea’s record in 2020.
  Threat in peace and security in the Korean peninsula. Due to the fact that North Korea
shifted to provocations of missile and nuclear weapon tests, against which South Korea
and the United States perceive that a military response is too escalatory.
 Reconciliation of North and South Korea. (Peace treaty)

THESE ARE ALL OF THE CHALLENGES FACED BY THE UNITED NATIONS IN NORTH KOREA IN ORDER
TO MAINTAIN GLOBALL SECURITY.