Representative Korean Peninsula experts Victor Cha, Chair of the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in the U.S., and Ramon Pacheco Pardo, Professor at King’s College, University of London, are holding a meeting with Korean correspondents at the Korean Cultural Center in Paris, France on the afternoon of the 18th (local time). . 2023.3.19/News1 © News1 Reporter Lee Jun-seong
An analysis has emerged that Russia, which failed to extend the term of the UN Panel of Experts on North Korea Sanctions Committee, is seeking to permanently dismantle sanctions against North Korea.
Victor Cha, Korea Chair at the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), one of the U.S. think tanks, said in an article posted on the CSIS website on the 29th (local time) that Russia is “the third in a systematic effort to weaken the UN sanctions regime against North Korea by exercising its veto power.” He said he had started “steps.”
Chair Cha said that in the first step, Russia stopped implementing the Security Council’s sanctions resolution against North Korea, in the second step, it blocked new Security Council sanctions resolutions in response to North Korea’s ballistic missile test launches, and in the third step, it worked to permanently dismantle the UN-level sanctions regime against North Korea. I thought it had started.
He also mentioned that Russia requested the introduction of a sunset clause in existing sanctions against North Korea. The idea was to have the effectiveness of sanctions against North Korea automatically disappear after a certain period of time.
As for the background to Russia’s efforts to neutralize sanctions against North Korea, Chair Cha mentioned the deepening of strategic cooperation between North Korea and Russia, which was manifested through North Korea’s support for Russia in the Ukraine war.
Citing a CSIS report, he noted that North Korea had supplied more than 10,000 containers of military equipment and munitions to fill three major storage depots near the war front, which could amount to more than 3 million rounds of ammunition.
He also expressed great concern that Russia could abandon ‘long-standing non-proliferation norms’ toward North Korea by providing sensitive military technology related to satellites, nuclear submarines, and long-range ballistic missiles in exchange for ammunition from North Korea. At the same time, it was seen that there was a possibility that North Korea and Russia could sign a joint production contract for military supplies.
Chair Cha said, “From President Putin’s perspective, there is little reason not to support North Korea at the UN Security Council in order to continue mutually beneficial cooperation between Russia and North Korea and gain a decisive advantage in the war at a time when U.S. military aid to Ukraine is stalled in Congress.” “He explained.
He added, “Without an expert panel, UN member states will be left without a third body to monitor compliance with regulations and close loopholes in the current sanctions.”
Even in this situation, he advised, “In order to implement sanctions policies, major countries such as ‘thinking partners’ such as the United States, Japan, Korea, and Australia must cooperate in information, efforts to prevent proliferation, and coordination of related laws.”
He said the Group of Seven (G7) does not have the same powers as the UN Security Council, but “active policy coordination among the expanded G7 members, which could include Australia, South Korea, Spain and others, would still be an effective, if imperfect, substitute (to the panel of experts).” “It can be done,” he added.
Previously, the UN Security Council held a plenary meeting at the UN Headquarters in New York on the 28th and voted on a resolution to extend the term of the expert panel under the UN Sanctions Committee on North Korea by one year until April of next year.
However, despite the abstention of China, a permanent member of the Security Council, the resolution was rejected due to Russia’s veto, and the expert panel will automatically end on the 30th of next month, 15 years after its creation.
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