North Korea leads disarmament forum
North Korea took over the presidency of the U.N. Conference on Disarmament, drawing stern criticism from a quarter of the world body's 193 members.
Conference on Disarmament
The Conference on Disarmament is the single multilateral disarmament negotiating forum of the international community. Although it has been at a stalemate for years, the conference was previously instrumental in negotiating significant treaties, including the Chemical Weapons Convention and the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty.
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