Peru has instructed the North Korean Embassy in Lima to reduce the number of its credited diplomats pursuant to UN Security Council (UNSC) Resolution 2321, according to its implementation report dated June 28.

The move is in line with Paragraph 14 of Resolution 2321, which calls upon UN member states to “reduce the number of staff at DPRK diplomatic missions and consular posts.”

“On 2 April 2017 the Ministry of Foreign Affairs sent a formal note to the Ambassador of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in Lima, informing him of the sovereign decision of the Government of Peru to