South Korea Wants to Avoid U.N. Security Council

South Korea is striving to avoid being reported to the U.N. Security Council for violating the Nuclear Nonproliferation Treaty through past nuclear experiments involving plutonium and uranium, diplomats said Wednesday (see GSN, Nov. 4).

As part of their efforts, South Korean diplomats have visited members of the International Atomic Energy Agency Board of Governors, which would make any referral, a Western diplomat on the board said. 

“They really don’t want to be reported to the Security Council. They’re trying to move heaven and hell to avoid it,” the diplomat said.

Another Western diplomat on the board said that while the United States is not seeking to have South Korea reported to the Security Council, “it would not block any such report” if it were determined that Seoul violated the treaty (Reuters/Daily Times, Nov. 5).

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