Russia should help impose new sanctions against North Korea over its recent launch of a spy satellite and enforce existing bans on the isolated country’s labour exports, a senior South Korean official said on Tuesday.
South Korea’s unification minister Kim Yung-ho, in charge of inter-Korean ties, said last month’s satellite launch violated U.N. Security Council resolutions banning North Korea’s use of ballistic technology, but Russia has been “extremely passive” in further sanctioning Pyongyang.
There are “clear signs” of military cooperation between Pyongyang and Moscow, and Seoul is also looking into whether Russia has accepted more North Korean workers in defiance of U.N. resolutions, Kim said.
“As a permanent member of the Security Council, Russia has responsibility to faithfully implement its sanctions resolutions,” he told a news conference.
