Korea – North Korea criticized the United States and other countries for seeking to find an alternative to the UN monitoring committee on sanctions against Pyongyang, warning those countries of “defeat if they continue their hostile approach.”
On Sunday, North Korea’s ambassador to the United Nations, Kim Song, issued a press statement in which he condemned “the United States, South Korea, Japan, and 47 other countries for their joint call to continue monitoring the implementation of sanctions against North Korea,” as the United Nations committee of experts in charge of the analysis was dissolved last month after… Russia used its veto power against its renewal.
“The end of the monitoring committee is a judgment passed by history on an illegal organization that sows conspiracies,” Song said, describing the expert committee as “a tool for the United States and other Western countries to eliminate the right of a sovereign state to exist.”
He added in the statement carried by the North Korean Central News Agency, “The hostile forces may form a second and third expert committee in the future, but all of them will face self-destruction over time.”
He warned that if “the United States and its followers continue to pursue the outdated, hostile policy towards North Korea, instead of drawing lessons from the recent case, they will face an even more miserable strategic defeat.”
“The United States will work with South Korea to discover creative, outside-the-box ways to build a new sanctions monitoring mechanism, even outside the UN system,” US Ambassador to the United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield said during her visit to South Korea in April.
At the end of March, Russia used the UN Security Council to veto the American draft resolution, to extend the mandate of the Committee of Experts regarding North Korea for a year, and thus the Committee’s mandate ended on April 30.
Source: “Yonhap”
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2024-05-05 22:24:37