World Leaders
The Prime Minister of the United Kingdom.
Who is Theresa May?
This part of the United Nations is the main body of the United Nations and has 193 members.
What is the General Assembly?
This organization monitors nuclear weapons for the United Nations. Recently they reported that Iran is in compliance with the treaty they signed.
What is the IAEA (International Atomic Energy Agency)?
America's oldest ally. This country supported us in the American Revolution.
What is France?
The year that North and South Korea signed an armistice and agreed to stop fighting.
What is 1953?
The Supreme Leader of North Korea.
Who is Kim Jong-un?
This UN body recently announced that 7 million people die every year from the effects of air pollution. Of the 7 million, 1 million are from this country alone.
Name the UN body and the country.
What is the WHO (World Health Organization) and India?
Two things that countries with nuclear weapons agreed to when they signed the NPT.
What is not to give the nuclear know how to anyone and to take steps towards disarmament?
Our two greatest adversaries in the race for supremacy in space.
Who are China and Russia?
President trump announced that $50 billion in tariffs will soon be placed on imports from this country in order to correct an imbalance of trade.
What is China?
The President of China.
Who is Xi Jinping?
This UN body focuses on sustainable development, democratic governance and peace building, climate and disaster resilience and gender equality.
What is the UN Development Programme?
The countries that have nuclear weapons.
Who are US, UK, China, France, Russia, India, Pakistan, North Korea, and Israel?
The only two countries on President Trump's travel ban that are not Muslim majority countries.
Who are North Korea and Venezuela?
The country of Yemen has been in a civil war since 2011. The rebels fighting against the government in Yemen are supported by this country.
What is Iran?
The President of South Korea.
Who is Moon Jae-in?
This UN organization is mandated to assist member states in their struggle against illicit drugs, crime and terrorism.
What is the UNODC (The UN Office on Drugs and Crime)?
A. The name of the treaty on nuclear weapons that was negotiated in 2017. B. What is the status of this treaty?
What is the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons? It is open for signature and ratification and will go into full effect once 50 countries have signed and ratified it.
This country is home to 1/2 of all the cobalt in the world. Child labor has been used to mine for cobalt.
What is the DRC (Democratic Republic of the Congo)?
This country expelled 23 high Russian diplomats after a former spy and his daughter were poisoned with a nerve agent. Other countries followed their lead.
What is the United Kingdom?
The Prime Minister of Israel.
Who is Benjamin Netanyahu?
This organization wants people to know that unless we take action, our oceans will contain more plastic than fish by 2050.
What is the UNEP (The United Nations Environment Programme)?
A. What is the CTBT? B. What is the current status of the treaty?
What is a treaty banning the testing of nuclear weapons. Not in force.
The CTBT will formally enter into force after 44 designated “nuclear-capable states” (as listed in Annex 2 of the treaty) have deposited their instruments of ratification with the UN secretary-general. To date, 183 states have signed and 166 have ratified the treaty. Yet of the 44 specified countries, India, Pakistan, and North Korea still have not signed, and only 36 have ratified the treaty.
One hundred and four girls and one boy, kidnapped by the Boko Haram terrorist group were recently returned to their families in this country.
What is Nigeria?
Identify two things that North and South Korea agreed to do in their recent summit.
What is to formally end the Korean war with a peace treaty and to denuclearize the Korean peninsula?