North Korean intercontinental missile launch: Washington imposes new sanctions

Published on: 03/25/2022 – 05:33 Russian and North Korean entities accused of “transferring sensitive elements to North Korea’s missile program” were subject to new sanctions from Washington on Thursday after the firing of an intercontinental missile by Pyongyang. The United States announced on Thursday 25 the imposition of new sanctions on Russian and North Korean entities after Pyongyang fired an intercontinental ballistic missile into Japan’s exclusive economic maritime zone. The targets of these latest sanctions are accused to “transfer sensitive items to North Korea’s missile program,” the State Department said in a statement. “These actions are part of our ongoing efforts to impede the ability of the DPRK Democratic Republic of Korea) to advance its missile program and highlight the nefarious role played by Russia on the world stage” by such assistance, the statement continued. North Korea on Thursday fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) in the Japan’s exclusive economic sea zone. South Korean President Moon Jae-in later confirmed that the projectile launched by Pyongyang towards the Sea of ​​Japan was indeed an ICBM. North Korean leader Kim Jong-un has observed since late 2017 and until now a moratorium on this type of missile firing. The sanctions announced Thursday concern two Russian entities named Ardis Group and PFK Profpodshipnik, as well as a man, Igor Aleksandrovich Michurin. In North Korea, a citizen, Ri Sung Chol, as well as an entity, the foreign affairs office of the second Academy of Natural Sciences, are targeted. The State Department does not specify the supposed links between these entities and the North Korean program. insist on the alliance between the two powers. The two senior diplomats reaffirmed that the launch violated multiple United Nations Security Council resolutions and “demonstrates the threat that the illegal weapons of mass destruction and ballistic the DPRK pose a burden on its neighbors and on the wider international community,” State Department spokesman Ned Price said in a debrief of the call. “The serial sanctions will not reach their goals”The Russian Embassy has accused Washington of seeking to punish officials in Moscow because they have a point of view that ‘does not match Washington’s’.”It is obvious that the next ‘paque t’ of anti-Russian sanctions is aimed at destroying the economy and undermining the internal political situation of our country”, said a press release published on the Facebook page of the embassy, ​​estimating however that “the series of sanctions will not reach their objectives”. On March 11, Washington announced that it would take economic sanctions against two Russian individuals and three entities, accused of supporting the North Korean missile development program. With AFP