Seoul: Russia has provided North Korea with its air defence system, electronic warfare jamming devices and other military support since late last year, in blatant violations of UN sanctions amid their deepening ties, an international monitoring report released by Seoul’s Foreign Ministry showed on Thursday.
Since November 2024, Moscow has transferred at least one Pantsir mobile air defence system and one Pantsir-class combat vehicle to Pyongyang, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) said in its first report on the sanctions enforcement.
The MSMT was established in October last year with the initiative of South Korea and the United States as an alternative framework to the UN Panel of Experts on North Korean sanctions monitoring. The panel was disbanded in March of the same year due to Russia’s veto. Besides South Korea and the US, nine other countries have joined the mechanism — Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, the Netherlands, and New Zealand.
The inaugural report, specifically focusing on the illegal military cooperation between Russia and the North, is the MSMT’s first assessment on the sanctions enforcement since its launch.
The findings were based on the intelligence and other information provided by the participating countries and data from private research institutes. (IANS)
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