Why Russia Is Protecting North Korea From Nuclear Monitors:
The monitors have provided vivid evidence of how
#Russia is keeping Pyongyang brimming with #fuel and other goods,
presumably in return for #weapons that Russia can use in Ukraine.
#Russia used its #veto power in the United Nations Security Council to kill off a U.N. panel of experts that has been
monitoring #North #Korea’s efforts to evade sanctions over its #nuclear program
for the past 15 years.
Russia’s discomfort with the group is a new development.
Moscow once welcomed the panel’s detailed reports about sanctions violations and considered Pyongyang’s nuclear program to be a threat to global security.
But more recently, the panel has provided vivid evidence of how
Russia is keeping the North brimming with fuel and other goods,
presumably
in return for the artillery shells and missiles that the North Korean leader, Kim Jong-un, is shipping to Russia for use against Ukraine.
The group has produced satellite images of ship-to-ship transfers of oil, showing how
the war in Ukraine has proved to be a bonanza for the North.
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