2024-03-30 05:43:01
North Korea’s Kim Jong-un and Russian President Vladimir Putin are toasting at a banquet held following the summit in April 2019. /TASS Yonhap News
As the term extension of the expert panel under the UN Security Council’s North Korea Sanctions Committee, which has been monitoring illegal activities related to violations of sanctions once morest North Korea, was rejected due to opposition from Russia, some analysts say that North Korea has secured a reliable ‘ally’ in the international community. After North Korean Chairman Kim Jong-un held a summit meeting with Russian President Vladimir Putin last year, ‘trade’ between the two countries began in earnest, with North Korea supplying artillery and other weapons to Russia, and Russia supporting North Korea with new weapons technology and economic materials in return. done. The analysis is that North Korea has reached a turning point in gaining unprecedented strategic and economic benefits since the Cold War through its new alliance with Russia.
The New York Times (NYT) reported on the 29th that the termination of UN panel activities due to the veto exercise by Russia, a permanent member of the Security Council, is further evidence that efforts to curb nuclear proliferation around the world have rapidly weakened over the past two years. “For most of the post-Cold War period, Russia, the United States, and China have been partners in dealing with nuclear proliferation challenges, especially North Korea and Iran,” said Robert Einhorn, a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution who served as special assistant for nonproliferation and disarmament at the U.S. State Department. “During the period of negotiations with Iran (when he was in government), he was entirely on the side of the United States and Europe, and even during the period of ‘fire and fury,’ he helped with the North Korean issue.” ‘Fire and fury’ is an expression alluding to former US President Donald Trump’s time in office when he attempted dialogue with North Korea’s Kim Jong-un. Likewise, in the past, Russia and China viewed North Korea’s nuclear weapons and missiles as a serious challenge to the international non-proliferation system and joined the United States in sanctions as permanent members of the Security Council, but now the situation has changed.
U.S. media reported, “Considering the new relationship that Russia is building with North Korea, a new era is opening for North Korea.” After the North Korea-Russia summit in September last year, there were speculations that Russia would transfer cutting-edge space-related technologies, such as satellites, to North Korea in return for weapons such as ammunition and missiles to be used in the war in Ukraine.
In fact, Russian ships continued to travel between North Korean ports and Vladivostok last year carrying containers. On the 26th, the Financial Times (FT) exclusively obtained satellite images from the British think tank Royal Allied Forces Research Institute and reported that at least five North Korean oil tankers transported oil from Vostochny Port in the Russian Far East in March alone. The expert panel of the North Korea Sanctions Committee The regular report released on the 20th contains the circumstances of North Korea sending weapons to Russia and receiving counter benefits, such as fuel and materials.
NYT said, “(The expert panel) presented vivid evidence of how Russia continues to allow fuel and other materials to flow into North Korea,” and added, “The dismantling of Russia’s surveillance network of sanctions once morest North Korea is creating a new area for easing pressure on North Korea.” “He said. This means that Russia has broken down the framework for monitoring sanctions once morest North Korea that the international community had accumulated in order to avoid being hindered in further arms transactions with North Korea in the future. For North Korea’s Kim Jong-un, the relationship with Russia that he has been working hard on has shown results, and it is analyzed that he will become more closely attached to Russia in the future in order to gain enormous economic and military benefits from Russia.
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