UN Security Council to hold ministerial meeting on North Korea

United Nations, December 2 : Japan announced on Saturday that it would host a ministerial meeting of the UN Security Council on December 15 focused on finding peaceful ways to press North Korea to halt its nuclear and ballistic missile tests and denuclearise the Korean peninsula.
Japan’s UN Ambassador Koro Bessho told a news conference that more must be done beyond the “very robust” sanctions that the council had already imposed targeting the financing and materials for Kim Jong Un’s nuclear and missile programmes.
Bessho, who is this month’s council president, said members are discussing a “product” from the ministerial meeting, but it isn’t clear whether it might be a statement or a resolution.
Secretary-General Antonio Guterres is expected to brief the council, and US officials say Secretary of State Rex Tillerson is likely to attend.
Bessho said Japan’s Foreign Minister Taro Kono would chair the meeting and several ministers and deputy ministers, whom he refused to name, were also expected.