The theory of quid pro quo crossed anyone's mind on Thursday, if you help me here, it will help you there.
There are analysts who claim that North Korea is providing weapons to Russia to sustain its war of invasion of Ukraine. And this was heard in the United Nations Security Council when Moscow vetoed the resolution that in practice suppresses the monitoring by UN experts of the sanctions against the Pyongyang regime for the development of its nuclear program.
Although the sanctions remain in place, their compliance becomes even more difficult than it was until now. This was highlighted by White House spokesman John Kirby when he replied that “this reckless stance undermines the Security Council's actions with North Korea.” China, this country's great ally, abstained from the vote, while the other 13 members were in favor of the text led by the US.
The change of record by Russia, which until now repeatedly agreed to that control system, caused Western nations to accuse the Kremlin of changing its usual behavior to protect its purchases of weapons from North Korea to supply its army in Ukraine. .
The resolution would have extended by 12 months the mandate of the group that has been monitoring violations for 14 years. The veto will make it inoperative. The Russian ambassador, Vasili Nebenzia, said on this occasion that the West wants to "strangle" North Korea and that the sanctions have proven irrelevant, "distanced from reality", or, at least, from the new Russian reality.
