Report of the Panel of Experts established pursuant to the resolution 1874 (2009) electronic resource

In response to the first nuclear test conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, on 9 October 2006, the Security Council, under Chapter VII of the Charter of the United Nations, adopted resolution 1718 (2006) on 14 October 2006, by which it imposed a series of sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to compel the country to abandon all nuclear weapons, existing nuclear programmes, all other existing weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missile programmes. Despite the international sanctions and the In paragraph 26 of Security Council resolution 1874 (2009), the Secretary- General was requested to establish a Panel of Experts to gather, examine and analyse information regarding the implementation of the measures imposed by the Council in its resolutions 1718 (2006) and 1874 (2009) and, in particular, to document incidents of non-compliance; to assist the Security Council Committee established pursuant to resolution 1718 (2006) in carrying out its functions; and to make recommendations on actions that the Council, the Committee or Member States may consider to improve implementation of those measures. This is the Panel’s second annual report.