Yonhap News Agency
SEOUL, May 29 (Yonhap) — Russia has provided North Korea with its air defense system, electronic warfare jamming devices and other military support since late last year, in blatant violations of U.N. sanctions amid their deepening ties, an international monitoring report released by Seoul’s foreign ministry showed Thursday.
Since November 2024, Moscow has transferred at least one Pantsir mobile air defense system and one Pantsir-class combat vehicle to Pyongyang, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) said in its first report on the sanctions enforcement.
The MSMT was established in October last year with the initiative of South Korea and the United States as an alternative framework to the U.N. Panel of Experts on North Korean sanctions monitoring.
The panel was disbanded in March of the same year due to Russia’s veto. Besides South Korea and the U.S., nine other countries have joined the mechanism — Australia, Britain, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, Netherlands and New Zealand.
The inaugural report, specifically focusing on the illegal military cooperation between Russia and the North, is the MSMT’s first assessment on the sanctions enforcement since its launch.
