2024-05-06 09:00:39
North Korea criticized “the United States’ pursuit of an alternative to the UN monitoring committee on sanctions,” saying that “such a step would be doomed to self-destruct.”
According to Yonhap, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Song, issued a statement in which he condemned “the United States, South Korea, Japan, and 47 other countries for their joint call to continue ‘objective’ and ‘independent’ analysis regarding the implementation of sanctions against North Korea, as a committee has been dissolved.” United Nations experts commissioned the analysis last month due to Russia’s use of its veto power against its renewal.
Kim Sung stated, “The end of the Monitoring Committee is a judgment passed by history on an illegal organization that sows conspiracies,” describing “the Committee of Experts as a tool for the United States and other Western countries to eliminate the right of a sovereign state to exist.”
He said in the statement: “The hostile forces may form a second and third committee of experts in the future, but they will all face self-destruction over time.”
He warned that “if the United States and its followers continue to pursue the outdated and hostile policy towards North Korea, instead of drawing lessons from the recent case, they will face an even more miserable strategic defeat.”
It is noteworthy that at the end of March, “the UN Security Council failed to adopt a new resolution aimed at extending the mandate of the Committee of Experts for another year, after Russia used its veto power, and thus the Committee’s mandate ended on April 30.”
The US Ambassador to the United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, said during her visit to South Korea in April, “The United States will work with South Korea to discover creative, outside-the-box ways for a new mechanism to monitor sanctions, even outside the United Nations system.”
Last updated: May 5, 2024 – 10:51
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