Uganda will halt security and military cooperation with The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, a South Korean official said following a summit in the capital Kampala beween President Yoweri Museveni and his South Korean counterpart Park Geun-hye.
Uganda hosted 45 people from the DPRK to provide police training as recently as December, according to a February report by a United Nations panel of experts.
Another report by the panel last year said DPRK citizens trained Ugandan police on the use of AK-47s and pistols.
Isolated North Korea has come under growing diplomatic pressure in the aftermath of its January nuclear test and a space rocket launch in February, which led to a United Nations Security Council resolution in March tightening sanctions against Pyongyang.
“During the summit, Uganda’s President Museveni…said he had ordered (officials) to faithfully enforce the U.N. Security Council resolution including halting of its security, military and police cooperation with North Korea,” Reuters reports Jeong Yeon-guk, a spokesman for Park as saying.
Uganda abstained from voting on all nine U.N. General Assembly resolutions on North Korean human rights for which votes were counted since 2005, a record mirrored by countries including India, Ethiopia, Nigeria, Mali and Qatar.
