North Korea: Sanctions Statement Violates Sovereignty — SkimNews
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- North Korea denounced an Oct. 31 joint statement by a sanctions-monitoring group as a “wanton violation of its sovereignty,” blaming hostility from the US and the West.
- US joined Australia, Britain and South Korea in a group that issued a statement this week urging UN member states to fully implement sanctions resolutions.
- UN sanctions resolutions ban the use of North Korean workers and military cooperation with North Korea, and the monitoring statement called for full implementation.
- KCNA relayed an unnamed foreign ministry spokesman’s claim that sanctions and pressure may work on the weak “but never on us.”
- North Korea said US and Western sanctions cannot alter its position as a nuclear weapons state.
- UN Security Council resolutions adopted starting in 2006 are aimed at ending North Korea’s nuclear-weapons and ballistic-missile programs.
Why it matters: The United States, Australia, Britain and South Korea now face an explicit public rejection from the state subject to their sanctions-monitoring statement. The dispute reaches beyond nuclear and missile language to bans on North Korean workers and military cooperation, under UN Security Council resolutions dating from 2006.
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