Resolution 1718
After Taepodong-2, the UN Security Council passes Resolution 1718, banning the transfer to Pyongyang of items related to ballistic-missile and space-launch technology — read broadly enough to cover almost every component.
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After the 9 October 2006 nuclear test by North Korea — preceded by the failed July 2006 launch of Taepodong-2 — the UN Security Council unanimously adopts Resolution 1718, banning the supply to Pyongyang of "items related to ballistic-missile or nuclear-related programmes."
Subsequent resolutions extend the prohibition to space-launch and dual-use items, with member states given broad discretion to interpret almost any space-relevant import as covered. The pattern of using Security Council resolutions to constrain a state's civilian space programme — by routing the constraint through the missile-proliferation framing — is now standard.
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