NORTH KOREA: ‘U.N. council to meet on North Korea rights abuses, nuclear program in December’, Reuters, 1 December 2017

UN Security Council ministers will meet on Dec. 15 to discuss North Korea's nuclear and missiles programs and the body will also meet separately this month to discuss human rights abuses there, an annual meeting that China has tried to prevent for three years. Japan's U.N. Ambassador, president of the council for December, said several ministers were confirmed to attend the Dec. 15 meeting. He also said the meeting on human rights in North Korea could be held on Dec. 11. China has unsuccessfully tried to stop three previous human rights meetings by calling a procedural vote. A minimum of nine votes are needed to win such a vote and China, Russia, the United States, Britain and France cannot wield their vetoes. 'U.N. council to meet on North Korea rights abuses, nuclear program in December', Reuters, 1 December 2017