The South Korean UN Secretary General hopes to cross the border after an attempt earlier in the year was blocked by the North.
02:22, UK,Monday 16 November 2015
Ban Ki-moon is to visit North Korea this week for talks with Kim Jong-Un aimed at resolving issues on the Korean peninsula.
It is Mr Ban's second attempt to meet with North Korea's leader after approval for a similar trip earlier this year was rescinded by the secretive state at the last minute.
The UN Secretary General, who is South Korean, crossed the border in 2006 to visit the joint industrial zone of Kaesong with a delegation of foreign diplomats when he was South Korea's foreign minister.
Two UN secretary generals have visited North Korea in the past - Kurt Waldheim in 1979 and, in 1993, Boutros Boutros-Ghali who met with then-leader Kim Il-Sung to discuss tensions over its nuclear ambitions.
In December last year, the UN General Assembly urged the Security Council to consider referring the North to the International Criminal Court after a UN inquiry detailed wide-ranging abuses in the country comparable to Nazi-era atrocities.
The secretive North, officially named the Democratic People's Republic of Korea, is under heavy UN, EU and US sanctions for its missile and nuclear tests.
"It is impossible that the UN Secretary General will not meet the leader of North Korea, a UN member state, as he visits the country," a UN source told South Korea's Yonhap news agency.
Response:
When you consider the tremendous conflict that has taken place between North and South Korea, you can then understand how monumental this event is. Last time Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, visited North Korea was in 2006. Mr Ban Ki-moon was not yet the Secretary General instead he visited as part of South Korea. Thus, his position in the United Nations greatly affects this situation. Mr Ban Ki-moon with other diplomats will address North Korea on some injustices that are comparable to the atrocities that the Nazi's inflicted, as well as the sanctions placed by various organizations. Hopefully, these talks come with a positive results and both parties do not let their patriotism affect he talks negatively.
The writer was mostly objective when trying to reach his audience of the general public. However, he seemed to hold a slight bias against North Korea by calling it secretive. But he strategically posted a smiling picture of the country's dictator. That picture seemed like a balancing tool by the writer to make this article as a whole objective.
When you consider the tremendous conflict that has taken place between North and South Korea, you can then understand how monumental this event is. Last time Secretary General of the United Nations, Ban Ki-moon, visited North Korea was in 2006. Mr Ban Ki-moon was not yet the Secretary General instead he visited as part of South Korea. Thus, his position in the United Nations greatly affects this situation. Mr Ban Ki-moon with other diplomats will address North Korea on some injustices that are comparable to the atrocities that the Nazi's inflicted, as well as the sanctions placed by various organizations. Hopefully, these talks come with a positive results and both parties do not let their patriotism affect he talks negatively.
The writer was mostly objective when trying to reach his audience of the general public. However, he seemed to hold a slight bias against North Korea by calling it secretive. But he strategically posted a smiling picture of the country's dictator. That picture seemed like a balancing tool by the writer to make this article as a whole objective.
Source:
"UN Chief Ban Ki-Moon To Meet Kim Jong-Un." Sky News. 2015 Sky UK, 16 Nov. 2015. Web. 17 Nov. 2015.
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