Mexico believes that North Korea's illegitimate start of it's Nuclear Weapons program needs to be punished as accorded in the treaties signed between them and the United States--in particular, the statement of June 11, 1993, stating that the DPRK would discontinue the production and research of nuclear weapons.
North Korea has also withdrawn from the Nuclear non-Proliferation Treaty. Said head of the IAEA, Mohammed ElBaradei:
"I am authorized to inform you hereby that the Government of the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea has decided ... to lift the moratorium on the effectuation of its withdrawal from the NPT [non-Proliferiation Treaty], unilaterally observed by the DPRK thus far under the DPRK-US Joint Statement of June 11, 1993, and that its decision to withdraw from the NPT will come into effect from Jan. 11, 2003."
The DPRK is one of an extreme minority of nations uninvolved and unadhering to the non-proliferiation treaty. North Korea's open conflict with its own statements, saying that they are both developing nuclear weapons and not developing said weapons causes any words of good faith from the DPRK gov't to be taken with much more than a grain of salt.
Coinciding with the conficting statements issued by the DPRK is its belligerently anti-American, and anti-South Korean foreign policy as evidenced by gun battles by North and South Korean gunships on June 29, 2002, the selling of SCUD missles to a traditionally unfreindly Yemeni gov't, taking hostages from the U.S.S. Pueblo in the 1968, and the Korean War from 1950-53.
The DPRK currently has in its posession 3 different types of missles with which to deliver a nuclear payload: No Dong 1, Taepo Dong 1, and Taepo Dong 2. The most powerful of these missles is the Taepo Dong 2, with a maximum range of 2,896 km. This is enough to effectively reach all of the cities in South Korea, all of Japan except for some obscure islands to the South, Vladivostok, and the greater part of Chinese Manchuria, including Beijing. There is limited information avaliable on the subject, however it is rumored that within 8 years the DPRK will be able to encompass almost all American cities West of the Mississippi. In 5 years, it is rumored that such major cities as Seattle and San Fancisco on the Western seabord will come within range of the North Korean missiles.
The DPRK controlling nuclear weapons gives a green light to Japan and South Korea to make nuclear weapons, meaning that 5 powers in the area will be able to deliver nuclear weapons to their neighbors, effectively ending the Russo-Chinese nuclear monopoly in the region and introducing the most devastating weapon known to man into one of the most unstable enviornments known to man.
Resolution 1a offers no solutions to any of these problems, allowing the DPRK to develop and create nuclear weapons, which it has shown intent to do so and how it will use them as blackmail not only to the U.S. but also their allies and friends, including Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, Thailand, and Australia, who will be within the vicinity of the nuclear weapons, be it now, 3, 5, 8, or 12 years.
The North Korean government must be dealt with strictly and harshly to ensure the security of the entire Pacific Rim.