China is opposite an effort by a United Nations sanctions board to adopt a report on North Korea’s uranium enrichment program, a South Korean government source said yesterday. The news comes as the UN Security Council (UNSC) is planned to hold a North Korea sanctions committee meeting in New York on Feb. 23. The committee is predictable to adopt the recently drafted report, a move that observers say will give more power for the UNSC to act against Pyongyang’s assumed nuclear program. “China, taking a negative stance on the uranium enrichment issue being obtainable to the UNSC, is opposed to adopting the report,” Yonhap quoted an unknown government source as saying.
“The adoption of the report is critical as it is connected to how the international community views the issue.” The report finish that the uranium enrichment program, which Pyongyang showed to a U.S. scientist in November, was possibly genuine. It also said the program is more advanced than a ability in Iran and requires a stronger supervision by the UNSC. The North’s uranium enrichment capability is suspected by scientists to be able to equip the North with an another way of building nuclear weapons beyond its plutonium-based weapons. Another government official said China’s resistance is making it hard to deal with North Korea. The decision to accept the report must be unanimous by the UNSC.
The official said China is claiming the North’s uranium program can be deal with in the framework of the six-party talks. Beijing has urged the concerned parties to resume international talks on North Korea’s denuclearization, stalled since April 2009 with the North’s withdrawal. South Korea’s top envoy on the North Korean issue, Wi Sung-lac, told Chinese officials previous week that the six-party talks can be effective only after the international society shows a stern response to the uranium enrichment program, according to a Seoul Foreign Ministry official.
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