The Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on Korean Peninsula was held on January 16, 2018 in
Vancouver
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,
Canada
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. The meeting was to allow "foreign ministers to discuss ways to increase the effectiveness of the
global sanctions regime in support of a rules-based international order."
Background
The meeting was announced after North Korea tested its
latest long range
intercontinental ballistic missile in late November, but was held amid signs that tensions on the Korean peninsula easing with North and South Korea holding formal talks in January for the first time in two years and North Korea agreeing to participate in the
2018 Winter Olympics
The 2018 Winter Olympics ( ko, 2018년 동계 올림픽, Icheon sip-pal nyeon Donggye Ollimpik), officially the XXIII Olympic Winter Games (french: Les XXIIIes Jeux olympiques d'hiver; ko, 제23회 동계 올림픽, Jeisipsamhoe Donggye Ollimpi ...
in a
unified team with the South.
Meeting
The meeting was co-hosted by Canada and the USA.
Invited parties include: "South Korea, Japan, India, Britain, France and other countries who fought in the Korean War of 1950-53." with foreign ministers and senior officials from 20 nations actually attending the meeting.
Notable countries that had not been invited were China, North Korea and Russia.
China and Russia criticized the gathering as potentially harmful to peace prospects on the Korean peninsula,
with China calling out the meeting for representing a "Cold War mentality".
Diplomats said China's absence would limit what could be achieved.
See also
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2017–18 North Korea crisis
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2017 North Korean missile tests
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2017 North Korean nuclear test
The Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea) conducted its sixth (and most recent to date) nuclear test on 3 September 2017, stating it had tested a thermonuclear weapon (hydrogen bomb). The United States Geological Survey reported ...
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Korean conflict
The Korean conflict is an List of ongoing armed conflicts, ongoing conflict based on the division of Korea between North Korea (Democratic People's Republic of Korea) and South Korea (Republic of Korea), both of which claim to be the sole legit ...
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List of North Korean missile tests
There have been a number of North Korean missile tests. North Korea has also fired a number of short-range missiles into the Sea of Japan, in what have been interpreted as political gestures.
, North Korea has carried out 147 tests of strategic ...
References
External links
Vancouver Foreign Ministers’ Meeting on Security and Stability on Korean Peninsulaat ''Canada.ca''
Reports on the Vancouver Summit on North Korea, and IAR Event*
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