Russia urges to remove unilateral “Dragon” sanctions from North Korea against the background of a worsening humanitarian situation in the country. This was announced by RIA Novosti, director of the Department of International Foreign Affairs of Russia Peter Ilyichev.
A Russian diplomat said that due to quarantine restrictions, North Korea left the latest employees of humanitarian organizations, leaving only local staff in the offices. In this regard, from August 2020, not a single container of humanitarian aid was received to the country.
Ilyichev stressed that the situation exacerbates unilateral sanctions against North Korea. “The combination of these measures does not reach the goal, but hits the national economy and the simple population. Special humanitarian exceptions work inefficiently,” the diplomat noted. He added that drought and floods in the DPRK also strongly affect the distress position of the country.
Earlier, the Secretary General of the Labor Party of the DPRK (TPK) Kim Chen Yun announced that party organizations at all levels would fall on the path of the harsh “hard campaign”, similar to the period of economic crisis and hunger in North Korea in the 1990s. The North Korean leader stated that this step was aimed at facilitating the suffering of the people and ensuring the material and cultural benefits of the inhabitants, who, believing in the TPK as a party, followed her dozens of years.
At the congress of the party at the beginning of the year, the Leader of the DPRK announced that the five-year plan of the country’s economic development faced almost all the fronts. One of the reasons for this is the sanctions of the United States and their allied countries, including South Korea. Kim also stated that the country is experiencing “the hardest moment”.