The United Nations logo at the United Nations headquarters in New York. Archival photo UN, May 12. Further sanctions against the DPRK may lead to unacceptable socio-economic and humanitarian shocks for the North Korean people, Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at a UN Security Council meeting. The United States had previously prepared a draft resolution on strengthening sanctions regime against the DPRK. «Further escalation of sanctions against the DPRK already goes beyond measures to cut off channels for financing banned nuclear missile programs and threatens North Korean citizens with unacceptable socio-economic and humanitarian shocks,» Evstigneeva said. «We would like to remind our American colleagues that that negotiations are a two-way street. It is completely futile to expect unconditional disarmament from Pyongyang under the threat of a sanctions spiral,» she added. is preparing a nuclear test site, said US envoy to the UN
