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Confronting Cybersecurity Threats: South Korea's Call at UN Security Council Meeting
Jun 25, 2024
Confronting Cybersecurity Threats: South Korea's Call at UN Security Council Meeting
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South Korea has presided over the first
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un security council meeting on cyber
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security in three years and S foreign
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minister to call for the council to
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confront cyber security threats headon e
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has
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more the UN Security Council on Thursday
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convened an official meeting on cyber
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security as North Korea has been relying
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on elicit cyber activities to evade UNC
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sanctions and General Revenue to fund
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its nuclear and missile programs the
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meeting is seen as as being significant
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given Rising tensions on the Korean
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Peninsula marking the first official UNC
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meeting on the issue since June 2021
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South Korean foreign minister choar
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presided over the meeting as the
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council's rotating president there he
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said the council must confront real and
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present cyber security threats headon
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while stressing the unc's role in the
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fight the linkage of cyber threat and
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International Peace and security is
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evident and the security Council has AED
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role to play in addressing cyber threats
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to fulfill its primary responsibility
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for maintenance of International Peace
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and security Joe said the cyber security
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threat posed by North Korea is nothing
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new noting that the regime
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systematically evades sanctions adopted
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by the UNC and challenges International
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nonproliferation through its illicit
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activities the minister cited a report
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of the expert panel of the security
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council's North Korea sanctions
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committee which found that North Korea
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has procured 40% of the funds for the
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development of weapons of mass
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destruction through illegal cyber
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activities for the UNC to tackle cyber
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threats Joe put forth a three-step
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approach of diagnosis prescription and
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treatment to respond to cyber security
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related issues South Korea the United
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States and Japan hosted an informal UNC
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meeting in April on North Korea's
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evolving cyber threats E adid news
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