IMO’s Nairobi International Convention on the Removal of Wrecks has been ratified by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, bringing the total number of States to accede to the treaty to 35. The Convention, which entered into force in 2015, provides the legal basis for States to remove, or have removed, shipwrecks that may threaten the safety of lives, goods and property at sea, as well as the marine environment.
The Convention was adopted in 2007 and its Contracting States currently represent just over 60% of the world's merchant fleet tonnage. Mr. Kim Kwang Min, Counsellor, Deputy Permanent Representative of the Democratic People’s Republicof Korea to IMO, Embassy of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea in London, met IMO Secretary-General Kitack Lim to deposit the instrument of accession (8 May).