UN Security Council MeetingMar 25The current situation around North Korea has become possible due to ignoring Pyongyang's moratorium on nuclear and missile tests, as well as the ongoing tightening of restrictions against North Korea, Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Ambassador of the Russian Federation to the UN, said at a UN Security Council meeting. According to her, over the past four years, the Security Council has and could not find the strength to respond to the North Koreans dismantling their nuclear test site, Pyongyang's observance of a moratorium on nuclear tests and launches of intercontinental ballistic missiles.The Kremlin commented on the missile launch of the DPRK «In each of its resolutions on the DPRK, starting in 2006, the Council expressed its readiness to review the restrictions depending on the degree to which Pyongyang complied with the provisions of the relevant documents. Unfortunately, so far the Security Council has only tightened restrictions, ignoring positive signals from North Korea,” Yevstigneeva stressed. “In this regard, the current development is largely a consequence of such short-sightedness of some colleagues present here who are not ready to go beyond the sanctions paradigm, which for many years has not been able to guarantee security in the region,” she added. She. The increase in sanctions against the DPRK threatens the citizens of the country with unacceptable socio-economic and humanitarian shocks, Anna Evstigneeva, Deputy Permanent Representative of Russia, said at a meeting of the UN Security Council. nuclear programs and gives birth to North Korean citizens with unacceptable socio-economic and humanitarian upheavals,» Yevstigneeva said.»Russia opposes any military activity that threatens the security of the Korean Peninsula and the countries of Northeast Asia. We regret the latest events in the region,» Yevstigneeva said. disarmament under the threat of a sanctions spiral and under guarantees of unsubstantiated promises,” Evstigneeva said. «We have repeatedly spoken about the need to form spaces of common and indivisible security. It is impossible to achieve sustainable results without full consideration of the legitimate concerns of all states in the region in the field of security,» she added. We urge everyone to exercise restraint and to confirm in practice the readiness to resume dialogue in line with the previously reached agreements and commitments,» Yevstigneeva said at a UN Security Council meeting on North Korea. According to the diplomat, the Russian-Chinese draft UN Security Council political and humanitarian involves the easing of a number of sanctions against the DPRK. As Evstigneeva pointed out, the draft could stimulate the parties to intensify their negotiating efforts. «At the same time, we would like to note that the lack of progress on the political track, of which the said resolution could be a part, threatens to further increase tensions on the peninsula, which we have noted with regret in recent months «, she added. On March 24, North Korea conducted the 12th missile launch since the beginning of this year. Pyongyang confirmed that it had conducted a test launch of the Hwaseong-17 intercontinental ballistic missile. The Japanese Ministry of Defense believes that with a normal trajectory, the range of the missile could be 15 thousand kilometers, which is sufficient to cover the entire territory of the United States. According to the Japanese military, the missile was in the air for 71 minutes, covering a distance of 1,100 kilometers and reaching a maximum flight altitude of more than 6 thousand kilometers, which significantly exceeds the characteristics of the Hwaseong-15 ICBM tested in 2017. The flight time and altitude reached were the highest ever for North Korean missiles. For example, the Hwaseong-15 rocket was in the air for 53 minutes and reached a maximum flight altitude of 4,000 kilometers. Russian companies for ties with North Korea
