SEOUL, South Korea \u2014 Ugandan President Yoweri Museveni vowed to cut military and security ties with North Korea in line with UN sanctions imposed following Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests, a Seoul official said Sunday.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Museveni, during a summit in Kampala with visiting South Korean President Park Geun-Hye, said he had ordered officials “faithfully” to honor the latest UN sanctions, Park’s spokesman Jung Yeon-Guk told reporters.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
“We instructed officials to faithfully enforce the UN Security Council resolutions, including the halt of cooperation with North Korea in the security, military and police sectors,” Jung quoted Museveni as saying.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The African country has maintained military cooperation with the isolated North, with dozens of North Korean military and police officials believed to be working in Uganda as military trainers.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Museveni, who has ruled Uganda since 1986, has visited the North three times and met Kim Il-Sung, the country’s late founding president and grandfather of the current leader Kim Jong-Un.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The UN Security Council in March imposed the toughest sanctions to date on the North following its fourth atomic test in January and a long-range rocket launch a month later.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The rocket launch \u2014 widely seen as a disguised ballistic missile test \u2014 was staged in violation of existing UN resolutions that ban the country from any use of ballistic missile technology.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Kim Jong-Un however remained defiant in the face of growing international pressure, declaring his country a “responsible” nuclear weapons state at a recent meeting of the ruling Workers’ Party.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The young leader also defended the country’ widely-condemned nuclear arsenal as a deterrent against “hostile” US policy against his regime.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
Park, during her first state visit to Uganda, discussed ways to strengthen ties including offering more aid to Kampala and development projects with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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