Russia urges UN to end monitoring of sanctions against North Korea. North Korea has been subject to UN Security Council sanctions linked to its nuclear program since 2006.
Since 2019, Russia and China have called for relief from these sanctions. Russian Ambassador Vassili Nebenzia justified this veto by estimating that, in current conditions, the committee no longer has any reason to exist, focusing on “uninteresting questions facing the peninsula” “There can be no justification for the disappearance of the guardians of the sanctions regime,” South Korean Ambassador Joonkook Hwang lambasted Thursday.