Kim Song’s comments came after Pyongyang’s ally Russia in March vetoed the extension of the mandate of a UN panel of experts monitoring the application of international sanctions on North Korea.
Washington and Seoul say North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is sending weapons to Moscow, even though it is prohibited under UN sanctions.
Pyongyang conducted a record number of missile tests last year, defying UN sanctions imposed in 2006 and warnings from Washington and Seoul.
In 2022, North Korea declared itself an “irreversibly” nuclear, militarily, state.
“The enemy forces may establish second and third expert groups in the future, but they will all be destroyed in time,” Kim Song said in a statement carried by North Korea’s state news agency KCNA.
According to him, Moscow’s veto was “the verdict of history on an illegal, conspiratorial organization that seeks to destroy the right of a sovereign state to exist.”
Also in April, Kim Song thanked Moscow, saying Pyongyang viewed Russia’s veto of the sanctions monitoring group “as an independent exercise of the right to international justice and impartiality.”
US Ambassador to the UN Linda Thomas-Greenfield, who visited Seoul last month, emphasized the importance of ensuring the implementation of sanctions against Pyongyang.
She added that Washington is currently working with Seoul, Tokyo and other countries to ensure the continuity of the monitoring group.
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