The United States, South Korea, and Japan have urged United Nations members to repatriate North Korean nationals working overseas to generate funds for North Korea’s nuclear weapons program.
U.S. special representative for North Korea, Sung Kim, met with his South Korean and Japanese counterparts, Kim Gunn and Takehiro Funakoshi, in Seoul on Friday to discuss North Korea’s nuclear threats.
In a joint statement, the three envoys condemned North Korea’s unlawful nuclear and ballistic missile programs and called on all U.N. member states to fully implement the Security Council resolutions on North Korea.
“We underscore that in accordance with UNSC resolution 2397 (2017), U.N. member states are required to repatriate all DPRK laborers earning income in their jurisdictions, unless repatriation is prohibited by applicable national or international law,” the statement reads….