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A couple things on N. Korea:
For the past 14 years, a panel of United Nations experts has regularly reported on North Korea’s expanding nuclear and missile programs and its efforts to defy U.N. Security Council sanctions. Their latest report, on March 7, offers 615 pages on North Korea’s activities, including 58 suspected cyberattacks on cryptocurrency-related companies between 2017 and 2023, netting about $3 billion to fund development of weapons of mass destruction. But now these eyes and ears have been removed.
In a U.N. Security Council vote on March 28, Russia vetoed an extension of the panel’s work, which it had previously supported. China abstained, and 13 other members voted for it. As a result, the panel that monitored the sanctions against North Korea is to expire at the end of this month, and the rest of the world will know even less than it does now about North Korea’s quest.
This was a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, undermining sanctions that the United Nations has imposed in recent years. More than that, it suggests yet another setback — again, perpetrated by Russia — to the post-Cold War struggle to curtail the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
[The vessel atop this missile appears to be a hypersonic delivery system]
Source: Bloomberg, citing US General Charles Flynn, Commander of the US Pacific Army, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Russian strikes on Ukraine provide North Korea with valuable information on technical issues, procedures and the munitions themselves.
"I don’t believe that in my recent memory that the North Korean military has had a battlefield laboratory quite like the Russians are affording them to have in Ukraine," General Charles Flynn said during a visit to the large US Army garrison at Humphreys, roughly 80 kilometres south of Seoul.
The general stressed that the US will monitor the situation closely.
Flynn explained that a huge concern for him and others is that North Korea could learn something about its weapons that it would not have had access to in the absence of a war such as the one in Ukraine.
For the past 14 years, a panel of United Nations experts has regularly reported on North Korea’s expanding nuclear and missile programs and its efforts to defy U.N. Security Council sanctions. Their latest report, on March 7, offers 615 pages on North Korea’s activities, including 58 suspected cyberattacks on cryptocurrency-related companies between 2017 and 2023, netting about $3 billion to fund development of weapons of mass destruction. But now these eyes and ears have been removed.
In a U.N. Security Council vote on March 28, Russia vetoed an extension of the panel’s work, which it had previously supported. China abstained, and 13 other members voted for it. As a result, the panel that monitored the sanctions against North Korea is to expire at the end of this month, and the rest of the world will know even less than it does now about North Korea’s quest.
This was a gift from Russian President Vladimir Putin to North Korean leader Kim Jong Un, undermining sanctions that the United Nations has imposed in recent years. More than that, it suggests yet another setback — again, perpetrated by Russia — to the post-Cold War struggle to curtail the spread of weapons of mass destruction.
[The vessel atop this missile appears to be a hypersonic delivery system]
US concerned with North Korea getting rare chance to test its weaponry in combat in Ukraine
Moscow's use of North Korean missiles in its attacks on Ukraine gives Pyongyang a unique chance to put its weapons to the test in combat and learn lessons that could improve their effectiveness.Source: Bloomberg, citing US General Charles Flynn, Commander of the US Pacific Army, as reported by European Pravda
Details: Russian strikes on Ukraine provide North Korea with valuable information on technical issues, procedures and the munitions themselves.
"I don’t believe that in my recent memory that the North Korean military has had a battlefield laboratory quite like the Russians are affording them to have in Ukraine," General Charles Flynn said during a visit to the large US Army garrison at Humphreys, roughly 80 kilometres south of Seoul.
The general stressed that the US will monitor the situation closely.
Flynn explained that a huge concern for him and others is that North Korea could learn something about its weapons that it would not have had access to in the absence of a war such as the one in Ukraine.
US concerned that North Korea is getting rare chance to test its weaponry in combat in Ukraine
Moscow’s use of North Korean missiles in its attacks on Ukraine gives Pyongyang a unique chance to put its weapons to the test in combat and learn lessons that could improve their effectiveness.
www.pravda.com.ua