The top diplomats of the Group of Seven countries have expressed their concerns over the human rights violations in North Korea and urged the North to refrain from provocative actions and to return to talks.
They’ve also called for a strengthening of cooperation to respond to the North’s cyberattacks which fund its weapons programs.
The ministers also expressed concerns over some countries not enforcing international sanctions placed on the regime.
The joint statement, issued at the end of the G7 Foreign and Development Ministers’ meeting in London on Wednesday, reads: “we call on North Korea to refrain from provocative actions and to engage in a diplomatic process with the explicit goal of denuclearization. We remain committed to the goal of complete, verifiable and irreversible abandonment of all of North Korea’s unlawful weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programs… in accordance with relevant UN Security Council resolution.”
Notably, the term “Complete Verifiable and Irreversible Abandonment” emerged… replacing the initial “CVID”… in which the last “D” stands for “dismantlement”… and interchangeably it also meant “denuclearization.”
The two terms “CVIA” and “CVID” mean the same but “CVIA,” which was first used in a UN Security Council resolution in 2006, is thought to make North Korea less resistant.
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