Voting Comparison

Compare how two countries, blocs, or a country and a bloc voted on UN resolutions.

Democratic People's Republic of Korea

3719 shared votes

81%

agreement

3002 agreed · 717 diverged

Islamic Republic of Iran

3719 shared votes

Agreement Trend over Time

Agreement rate per year (years with ≥2 shared votes). Click a point or year label to filter the vote list below.

Position Matrix

How often each combination of positions occurred across all shared votes.

	Islamic Republic of Iran
Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Yes	No	Abstain
Yes	2671	1	11
No	65	183	70
Abstain	154	24	109

green = same position amber = different position

Breakdown by Voeten Topic

Agreement rate per issue area (Voeten dataset, GA resolutions only). Dashed line shows overall agreement rate.

Middle East

94% 500/530

Nuclear/Arms

66% 206/312

Colonialism

94% 315/334

Human Rights

88% 470/537

Economic Dev.

84% 187/223

Disarmament

75% 333/445

Overall

81% 3002/3719

Most Divergent Votes

Resolutions where the two sides diverged most, sorted by how contested the overall vote was.

Resolution	Democratic People's Republic of Korea	Islamic Republic of Iran	Y / N / A
A/RES/68/144 Report of the Human Rights Council : resolution / adopted by the General Assemb… 2013	yes	abstain	94 / 71 / 23
A/RES/79/160 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2024	yes	non_voting	119 / 53 / 10
A/RES/80/192 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2025	yes	non_voting	119 / 51 / 10
A/RES/72/59 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2017	abstain	yes	123 / 50 / 10
A/RES/74/68 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2019	abstain	yes	118 / 50 / 15
A/RES/75/75 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2020	abstain	yes	120 / 50 / 14
A/RES/76/56 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2021	abstain	yes	125 / 50 / 13
A/RES/76/27 Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2021	abstain	yes	125 / 50 / 14
A/RES/77/82 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2022	abstain	yes	116 / 50 / 15
A/RES/77/204 Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism and other practices that contribu… 2022	yes	non_voting	120 / 50 / 10
A/RES/78/55 Convention on the Prohibition of the Use of Nuclear Weapons : resolution / adop… 2023	abstain	yes	120 / 50 / 14
A/RES/80/37 Reducing nuclear danger : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2025	abstain	yes	117 / 50 / 11

Agreements on Contested Votes

Resolutions where both sides voted the same way despite significant opposition from others.

Resolution	Both voted	Y / N / A
40/233 Situation of human rights and fundamental freedoms in El Salvador 1985	yes	79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/65/224 Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2010	yes	79 / 67 / 40
A/RES/61/166 Promotion of equitable and mutually respectful dialogue on human rights : resolution / ad… 2006	yes	86 / 64 / 26
39/192 Question of the United States Virgin Islands 1984	yes	86 / 64 / 26
A/RES/57/230 Situation of human rights in the Sudan : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2002	no	80 / 62 / 33
A/RES/64/156 Combating defamation of religions : resolution / adopted by the General Assembly 2010	yes	80 / 61 / 42
A/RES/74/247 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :… 2019	yes	79 / 60 / 33
A/RES/73/187 Countering the use of information and communications technologies for criminal purposes :… 2018	yes	94 / 59 / 33