UNSC panel on N. Korea to visit S. Korea this week: sources

By Tony Chang
SEOUL, Dec. 7 (Yonhap) -- The U.N. Security Council panel overseeing sanctions
against North Korea plans to visit South Korea this week to discuss their
implementation with diplomatic officials, government sources said Monday.

The seven-member panel will arrive in South Korea on Wednesday for a three-day
visit and meet with officials at the foreign ministry, including Oh Joon, deputy
foreign minister for international organizations, global issues and treaties,
informed officials said.
North Korea is under U.N. Security Council resolutions 1695 and 1718, adopted
after its missile and nuclear tests in 2006, and resolution 1874, adopted after
its atomic test this year. The sanctions call for an overall arms embargo on the
communist country, as well as financial sanctions and interdiction of cargo on
the high seas to prevent the proliferation of nuclear weapons, missiles and other
weapons of mass destruction.
The panel, formed of one expert each from the five members of the Security
Council plus one each from South Korea and Japan, later plans to visit Busan, a
port city in the southeast, to be briefed on trade control and trans-shipment
regulations for vessels traveling in and out of the city's port.
The group plans to travel to Japan on Friday before returning to the U.N.
headquarters in New York.
The panel, founded earlier this year after the adoption of resolution 1874,
submitted an interim report to the Security Council in mid-November on the
effects of the sanctions on North Korea.
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