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The United Nations disarmament chief said efforts to disarm North Korea will not be easy. Speaking to Japanese high school students in New York, the UN Under-Secretary-General and High Representative for Disarmament Affairs, Izumi Nakamitsu said denuclearizing North Korea meant not just dismantling existing nuclear weapons but complete and irreversible denuclearization.
She said the United Nations is weighing what role it can play in this effort by collecting information and exchanging views with the United States.
She said North Korea probably also possesses chemical and biological weapons. She also said the US’s summit with the North on June 12th in Singapore, will be the start of a very difficult task, never before experienced by the international community.