XII Andes Model of the United Nation (ANDESMUN 2017)
The military power of the DPRK
Committee: Security Council
Topic: North Korea’s other weapons of
mass destruction (WMD) programs.
Country: The Russian Federation.
Greetings, honorable members of
the Chair and present delegations.
Receive a warm greeting from our
President Putin, our Prime Minister and
our people.
The ongoing crisis over North
Korea’s nuclear program. While nuclear
programs can be monitored by the
number of nuclear tests and the success
of missile tests, weaponizing and
cultivating pathogens can stay invisible
behind closed doors.
In this context, the cooperation of
the three key nuclear powers — Russia,
the United States, and China — is
becoming a vital necessity: arms control
and disarmament; “horizontal”
proliferation of nuclear weapons (NW);
prevention of nuclear terrorism. Russia
advocates that the issue of missile
defense should be taken into account in
future agreements on arms reduction.
only grows every year, 10 years ago few
believed that the DPRK would be capable
of launching the missile for a long
distance. In fact, as of today, it is not
completely clear what is really happening
in the DPRK, as well as in the PRC.
Although the objectives and
doctrine of North Korea’s BW are not well
understood, security experts point out
that BW could be tactical: North Korea is
likely to use biological weapons before or
at the beginning of a conflict to disrupt
society and create panic, incapacitate
societies, and/or cause a significant
military diversion.
The creation of communication
hot lines, negotiations in the field of
nuclear weapons, the progressive
reduction of nuclear arsenals are the
minimal set of proved measures, which if
extended to all nuclear powers will allow
to carefully move the world away from
the brink of a nuclear apocalypse.
The Russian Federation
recommends gathering intelligence
online: Internet usage in North Korea has
been increasing despite tight government
control of access.