UN: Russia imposes end of sanctions monitoring against North Korea. While sanctions against the North Korean state had been in force since 2006, a Russian veto put an end to them.
This is a real setback for the United Nations. Suspicions of arms exports to Russia In its latest 600-page report at the beginning of March, the committee of experts underlines that North Korea continues to "flout the Security Council sanctions" The committee also claims to have begun to investigate the export by North Korea of “conventional weapons and ammunition” in violation of sanctions.