Member state
North Korea at the United Nations
- Admitted
- 1991-09-17
- ISO 3166-1
- KP / PRK
- Admitted by
- A/RES/46/1
International organisations
Every organisation this state belongs to that is compiled here, with the date it joined. Membership is resolved against this site’s own list of member states rather than taken from a query.
| Organisation | Joined |
|---|---|
| United Nations | 1991-09-17 |
Permanent mission
- Mission
- Permanent Mission of North Korea to the United Nations
- Address
- Permanent Mission of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea to the United Nations, 820 Second Avenue, Suite 13A, New York, NY 10017
- Accredited diplomats
- 9
Accredited diplomats
- Mr. Song Kim Ambassador Extraordinary and Plenipotentiary / Permanent Representative
- Mr. Pak Song Il Ambassador
- Mr. Ri Yong Phil Ambassador
- Mr. Ri Ki Ho Counsellor
- Mr. Ri Kum Chol Counsellor
- Mr. Kim In Chol First Secretary
- Mr. Jo Tong Hyon Second Secretary
- Mr. Kim Nam Hyok Third Secretary
- Mr. Kim Pong Chol Attaché
The numbers
| Indicator | Latest | Year | Since 1970 |
|---|---|---|---|
| CO2 emissions per capita | 2.49971 | 2024 | |
| Life expectancy at birth | 73.743 | 2024 | |
| Net official development assistance received | 1.44244e+07 | 2023 | |
| Population | 2.6571e+07 | 2025 | |
| Refugees originating (UNHCR mandate) | 263 | 2025 |
World Bank, World Development Indicators, CC BY 4.0. The sparkline shows the shape of each run from its first reported year; the number beside it carries the magnitude, and there is deliberately no axis on it.
General Debate statements
35 statements to the General Debate since 1991, 83,577 words in all. The longest was 1993, at 4,033 words, delivered by Mr. SONG Won Ho.
Of the 31 statements since 1994 whose speaker’s post the record gives: Minister for Foreign Affairs ×20, Permanent Representative ×3, Chair of the Delegation ×3, UN Representative ×3. Earlier years are excluded because UN records do not consistently identify a speaker’s post before 1994, and counting those years as though they did would make any state look as though it sent nobody senior.
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Emblems and location
Treaties joined
39 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.
Recorded votes
| Resolution | Date | Vote |
|---|---|---|
| A/RES/80/282 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/286 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/296 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 B | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/294 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/293 A | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/297 | - | yes |
| A/RES/80/299 | - | yes |
Provenance
Every fact on this page, with where it came from and how sure we are.
| Attribute | Value | Source | Confidence | Fetched |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| iso2 | KP | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905817+00:00 |
| iso3 | PRK | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905826+00:00 |
| m49 | 408 | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.141645+00:00 |
| name | North Korea | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905798+00:00 |
| un_admission_date | 1991-09-17 | wikidata | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:17.905807+00:00 |
| unsd_name | Democratic People's Republic of Korea | un_sdg | 1.0 | 2026-08-26T06:55:41.141659+00:00 |
Where this page comes from
- UN General Debate Corpus (Jankin, Baturo & Dasandi) — CC0 1.0 · source
- UN Research Guides (Dag Hammarskjold Library) — un.org website terms (all rights reserved) · source
- UN Statistics Division SDG Indicators API — CC BY 4.0 · source
- Wikidata — CC0 1.0 · source
- World Bank Open Data — CC BY 4.0 · source