Highlights of UN resolution banning NKorea from exporting arms, weapons-related goods

Highlights of UN resolution against NKorea

Key points in the U.N. Security Council resolution adopted in June imposing additional sanctions on North Korea for its second nuclear test in defiance of an earlier ban.

The resolution:

— “Condemns in the strongest terms” North Korea’s second nuclear test on May 25 “in violation and flagrant disregard of its relevant resolutions.”

— Orders North Korea to suspend all activities related to its ballistic missile program and re-establish a moratorium on missile launches.

— Bans North Korea from exporting all arms and weapons-related material and providing technical training, advice, services or financial assistance related to such arms and material.

— Bans countries from selling or supplying arms and weapons-related material to North Korea except for small arms and light weapons, and orders states to notify the U.N. committee monitoring sanctions at least five days before any transfer.

— Calls on all states to inspect, consistent with national and international law, all cargo to and from North Korea at their airports, seaports and on land if the state has “information that provides reasonable grounds to believe the cargo contains” banned items.

— Calls on all states to inspect vessels on the high seas, with consent of the country whose flag the vessel is flying, if there are reasonable grounds to believe the cargo contains banned items.

— Orders member states to prohibit the supply of bunkering services such as providing fuel or supplies to North Korean vessels if there are reasonable grounds to believe they are carrying banned items.