This is the second part of a two-part series on North Korea’s legal claims against recent UNSC sanctions. You can read part one here.

The DPRK has put forward three arguments challenging the legality of UN sanctions; two are very weak, one has a chance of working. I will deal with the two weak arguments first.

Weak argument #1: Questioning the lawfulness of the UNSC’s Article 39 determination that the DPRK’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs are “a threat to the peace.”

The DPRK’s first claim has been to challenge the whole premise of