Canada vs North Korea: UN Voting Alignment
How often do Canada and North Korea vote the same way at the UN General Assembly? Agreement over every shared roll-call vote since 1946, by year, decade, and topic — plus the resolutions where they split.
Overall agreement
33.7%
of 2,101 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946
Agreement by year
Agreement by decade
| Decade | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 43.2% | 560 |
| 2000 | 40.1% | 741 |
| 2010 | 21.3% | 799 |
| 2020 | 0.0% | 1 |
Agreement by topic
| Topic | Agreement | Shared votes |
|---|---|---|
| Israel–Palestine | 46.4% | 519 |
| Nuclear weapons | 21.4% | 365 |
| Disarmament | 32.9% | 465 |
| Colonialism | 49.7% | 346 |
| Human rights | 14.2% | 534 |
| Economic development | 44.3% | 219 |
Biggest splits
| Resolution | Date | Canada | North Korea |
|---|---|---|---|
A/RES/72/191 Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/189 Situation of human rights in the Islamic Republic of Iran : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-19 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/84 Work of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-07 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/43 Implementation of the Convention on the Prohibition of the Development, Production, Stockpiling and Use of Chemical Weapons and on Their Destruction : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/50 United action with renewed determination towards the total elimination of nuclear weapons : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/32 Compliance with non-proliferation, arms limitation and disarmament agreements and commitments : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-12-04 | yes | no |
A/RES/72/15 Jerusalem : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/14 Peaceful settlement of the question of Palestine : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/13 Committee on the Exercise of the Inalienable Rights of the Palestinian People : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
A/RES/72/12 Special information programme on the question of Palestine of the Department of Public Information of the Secretariat : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly | 2017-11-30 | no | yes |
Frequently asked questions
How often do Canada and North Korea vote together at the UN?
Canada and North Korea voted the same way in 33.7% of 2,101 shared UN General Assembly votes since 1946.
Do Canada and North Korea agree on human rights votes?
On human rights resolutions, Canada and North Korea mostly disagree: they voted the same way in 14.2% of 534 shared human-rights votes at the UN General Assembly.
When did Canada and North Korea last disagree at the UN?
Among their biggest recent splits, on 2017-12-19 Canada voted "yes" and North Korea voted "no" on A/RES/72/191 (Situation of human rights in the Syrian Arab Republic : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly).