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- U.S. Ambassador to nan United Nations, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, has urged Russia and China to reverse their support for North Korea.
- Thomas-Greenfield criticized them for rewarding nan country's bad behaviour and shielding it from sanctions.
- She made these remarks during a sojourn to nan Demilitarized Zone betwixt North and South Korea.
The U.S. ambassador to nan United Nations urged Russia and China connected Tuesday to reverse course, and extremity rewarding North Korea's bad behaviour and shielding it from sanctions evading activities complete its weapons programs.
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield made nan remarks during a sojourn to nan Demilitarized Zone, a heavy fortified separator betwixt nan 2 Koreas, which stay technically astatine war.
Her travel to South Korea came aft Russia rejected nan yearly renewal of nan multinational sheet of experts that has complete nan past 15 years monitored nan implementation of U.N. sanctions aimed astatine curbing North Korea's atomic and rocket programs.
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Moscow's veto and China's abstention only "empowers" North Korea's efforts to sidestep world sanctions and "shields" it from accountability, Thomas-Greenfield said.
U.S. Ambassador to nan United Nations Linda Thomas-Greenfield speaks to reporters astatine nan U.S. Army guidelines Camp Bonifas successful Paju adjacent nan truce colony of Panmunjom, South Korea, connected April 16, 2024. (JUNG YEON-JE/Pool via REUTERS)
"Hiding nan truth does not alteration it. Rewarding bad behaviour only encourages it," she told reporters. "We impulse Russia and China to reverse people and erstwhile again to impulse Pyongyang to take diplomacy and travel to nan negotiating array to perpetrate to constructive dialogue."
Washington will activity pinch South Korea, Japan and different partners astatine nan Security Council to look astatine "some imaginative ways, immoderate out-of-the-box thinking" to proceed monitoring sanctions enforcement and different activity carried retired by nan panel, Thomas-Greenfield said.
Later successful Seoul, she met pinch a group of young North Korean defectors, lauding their flight to nan South arsenic "courageous, inspiring."
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"One of my priorities is to raise nan floor plan of quality authorities violations successful nan DPRK, to raise nan floor plan and amplify your voices arsenic escapees," she told them, referring to North Korea by nan initials of its charismatic name, nan Democratic People's Republic of Korea.
Thomas-Greenfield arrived connected Sunday and met President Yoon Suk Yeol and Seoul's overseas and defense ministers connected Monday to talk ways to deter North Korea's weapons programs and beforehand quality authorities successful nan reclusive state.
She will besides recreation to Japan, wherever she is expected to meet family members of Japanese citizens who were abducted successful nan early 2000s by North Korea, and sojourn Nagasaki, which was deed by a U.S. atomic explosive successful 1945, until Saturday.
Both South Korea and Japan are U.S. friends and members of nan Security Council.
