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While North Korea is talking about it again in the midst of the war between Russia and Ukraine, Washington will sanction two people and three Russian entities, accused of supporting the North Korean missile development program.

"Today's action targets a group of foreign individuals and companies who are assisting a procurement agent in Russia linked to North Korea's defense industry," the US Treasury Department said in a statement. a statement, stating that “much of this activity also violates UN prohibitions against North Korea.”

Pyongyang has carried out numerous missile launches since the beginning of the year, assuring that they are satellite development tests.

But the United States accused North Korea on Thursday of having actually tested a new intercontinental ballistic missile system, and denounced a "serious escalation", after analyzing more precisely two launches carried out on February 26 and March 4, which had caused great concern in the region.

Russia and China opposed to sanctions

North Korea "continues to fire ballistic missiles in flagrant violation of international law, which poses a serious threat to global security," said U.S. Treasury Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson. , quoted in the press release.

He said the sanctions "respond to this threat by targeting a network of Russia-based individuals and entities complicit in helping North Korea procure components for its illegal ballistic missile systems."

For several months, North Korea has stepped up the modernization of its military, and warned in January that it could lift the self-imposed moratorium on testing long-range missiles and nuclear weapons. .

The dialogue has been cut off since 2019, and the West came up against the opposition of Russia and China at the start of the week to have resolutions adopted against the North Korean dictatorship at the UN Security Council.

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