US Sanctions Russian Citizens and Entities for North Korea’s Weapons Program

United States announced this Friday economic sanctions on two people and three Russian entities, accused of having supported North Korea in two recent missile tests, which Pyongyang claims were satellite launch tests.

“Today’s action is directed at a group of foreign individuals and companies assisting a procurement agent in Russia linked to North Korea’s defense industry.”, the US Treasury Department said in a statement.

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“Much of this activity also violates UN prohibitions against North Korea,” Add.

Pyongyang has carried out numerous missile launches so far this year, claiming they are satellite development tests.

But United States accused him on Thursday of having actually tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile system, and denounced a “serious escalation”, after analyzing two releases, made on February 26 and March 4.

North Korea “it continues to fire ballistic missiles in flagrant violation of international law, which represents a serious threat to global security”affirms the undersecretary of the Treasury for terrorism and financial intelligence, Brian Nelson, quoted in the statement.

These sanctions “respond to this threat by targeting a network of individuals and entities based in Russia, complicit in having helped North Korea to acquire components for their illegal ballistic missile systems,” he added.

The Academy of Defense Sciences of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on Tuesday and Thursday conducted the fire test to upgrade the long-range cruise missile system and the fire test to confirm the power of the conventional warhead for guided missiles. ground-ground tactics. respectively, place unknown, released on January 28, 2022. (EFE/EPA/KCNA). (KCNA/)

Washington and its partners failed this week to get the UN Security Council to adopt a text against North Korea, due to opposition from Russia and China.

Despite harsh international sanctions over its nuclear and intercontinental ballistic missile tests, Pyongyang has so far rejected all offers of dialogue since negotiations between leader Kim Jong Un and then-president of the United States broke down in 2019. United StatesDonald Trump.

North Korea He has further modernized the military and warned in January that he could lift a self-imposed moratorium on long-range missile and nuclear weapons tests.

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Source: Elcomercio