U.S. sanctions urges U.S. and other North Korean workers to be repatriated
The UN Security Council's sanctions resolution requires member states to repatriate North Korean workers working abroad, but the United States and others have called on the sanctions committee to urge countries to fulfill this obligation. In contrast, it turned out that China and Russia had disputed. The difficulty of steadily enforcing sanctions is once again highlighted.
UN Security Council repatriated 100,000 North American workers abroad by December last year to cut off North Korea's nuclear and missile development funding in a sanctions resolution in 2017 The United Nations members to do so.
However, after the deadline for reporting the completion of repatriation, only 52 countries reported after the 22nd last month, and the United States and the United Kingdom chaired the Sanctions Committee to send a reminder document to the non-reporting country. Requested.
In response, Security Council officials found that China and Russia had challenged the Chair.
"The Sanctions Committee has never sent such a document to any country before, and there is no need to do so." .
According to Security Council officials, the authority to send texts lies with the chair of the Sanctions Committee, which is not bound by any objection, but that the Security Council's permanent members, China and Russia, have objected together. It again highlights the difficulty of steadily implementing the sanctions adopted by unanimity.