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.

Position in General Assembly voting

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People of concern

As recorded by UNHCR’s Refugee Data Finder for 2025 — UNHCR’s own reporting categories, not a census.

Population projection

United Nations World Population Prospects, median variant — a projection, not a count.

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

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

37 actions recorded by the Secretary-General as depositary. Only treaties whose participant counts match the depositary’s own stated totals contribute rows.

Recorded votes

Provenance

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