Seoul said Friday it will continue close communications with key UN Security Council (UNSC) members, after China and Russia again proposed easing sanctions against North Korea, Yonhap News Agency reported.
“The government will continue close communications with the US and other key members of the UN Security Council on how to deal with the situation surrounding the Korean Peninsula,” a spokesman from the Unification Ministry was quoted as saying at a press briefing in Seoul.
South Korea was aware that the two countries have circulated such a draft resolution to UN Security Council members, and that it will closely monitor related moves at the council, according to the spokesman.
The proposal from China and Russia came amid little progress in nuclear negotiations between the US and North Korea after their Hanoi summit in 2019 collapsed without a deal. The North has remained unresponsive to US overtures for talks, demanding Washington first retract what it calls “double standards” and “hostile policy” against Pyongyang.
