by Aurélien Vallier and Magdalena Ji-in Seol

The adoption of United Nations Security Council resolution 1718 on 14 October 2006 constitutes a watershed for the global WMD non-proliferation regime. Less than a week after North Korea became the world’s 9th nuclear power by conducting an underground nuclear test, the Security Council imposed sanctions against the world’s possibly greatest nuclear threat and certainly most challenging regime.

OCGG Security Briefing No 7 (PDF)

UNSC Resolution 1718 (PDF)