Growing security threat from North Korea: Korea Herald

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SEOUL - The United Nations Security Council on Thursday took a vote on its resolution to strengthen sanctions on North Korea fora day earlier, but the resolution fell through due to opposition from

Russia and China.

The latest vetoed resolution was based on the trigger clause of the UN resolution No. 2397. The UN Security Council passed the automatic sanctions clause in December 2017 that if North Korea conducts a further nuclear test or fires an ICBM, the council will take action to further restrict petroleum exports to North Korea. At that time, China and Russia consented, too.

Whenever North Korea faced a crisis, China opened the back door for the North and Russia defended it. The two countries urged restraint and cool-headedness from related countries and blamed the US. A day before North Korea's latest ICBM launch, multiple Russian and Chinese warplanes entered South Korea's air defence identification zone without notice.

Proper functions of the UN Security Council regarding North Korea are collapsing due to vetoes by China and Russia. If the two countries keep using their status as permanent members of the council to side with the North, it would be virtually impossible to expect the UN to resolve the North's nuclear problem through sanctions.

 

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