North Korea calls new US-led sanctions monitoring team ‘unlawful’

A new sanctions monitoring team led by the United States was criticized by North Korea’s top diplomat on Sunday ( October 20 ), with the president edifying as “unlawful and illegitimate” and admonstrating that the nations involved in the group would be “dearly priced.”

Following Russia’s veto of a section of UN experts monitoring global sanctions against North Korea, which were imposed for its banned nuclear and arms programs, the 11-member group was named earlier this month.

South Korea and its allies have tried various methods to track sanctions since the Soviet reject, leading to the formation of the new team, which includes the United States and Japan.

According to North Korea’s Foreign Minister Choe Son Hui,” totally unconstitutional and illegitimate,” for a monitoring system is “illegal and illegitimate,” according to a statement released by the standard Asian Central News Agency on Sunday.

” Its life itself constitutes a rejection of the UN Charter”, he said.

The criticism comes on the heels of a report by the South’s spy agency that North Korea had sent a “large-scale” troop deployment to help Moscow’s war in Ukraine, with 1, 500 unique troops already training in Russia.

Additionally, Seoul asserts that Pyongyang has been sending weapons to Moscow to combat Kyiv.

Choe did not address the alleged implementation in the Sunday speech, and Pyongyang has originally denied any Russian-to-Russian weapons-busting business.