Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, urged Russia and China on Tuesday to stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior.
PANMUNJOM, South Korea — The U.S. ambassador to the United Nations urged Russia and China on Tuesday to reverse course, and stop rewarding North Korea’s bad behavior and blocking U.N. scrutiny of the isolated country’s efforts to evade sanctions over its weapons programs. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made the remarks during a visit to the Demilitarized Zone, a heavily fortified border between the two Koreas, which remain technically at war.
” Washington will work with South Korea, Japan and other partners at the Security Council to look at “some creative ways, some out-of-the-box thinking” to continue monitoring sanctions enforcement and other work carried out by the panel, Thomas-Greenfield said. Later in Seoul, she met with a group of young North Korean defectors, lauding their escape to the South as “courageous, inspiring.
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