• Phenyq@lemmygrad.ml
    43·
    1 year ago

    Actually, Lavrov did not said that sanctions will be lifted, he said that there will no be new sanctions

    Here’s the video: https://t.me/zarubinreporter/1302

    He’s saying here as an answer to “Why Russia is sanctioning DPRK?” basically this: “Russia wasn’t sanctioning DPRK, Security Council was. Sanctions were implemented in completely different enviroment, and, as always, the West did not do anything on their part what we were agreing on. Russia and China were lied to, and the West is suppling weapons to South Korea, SEVERAL YEARS AGO WE AGREED WITH CHINA THAT THERE WILL NO BE NEW SANCTIONS ON DPRK”

    By the way, I have limited knowledge of English, and also were writing basic meaning of his words, not literal translation

    • Łumało [he/him]@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      23·
      1 year ago

      Thank you, I thought this was unfortunately unrealistic and I was right to hold my hype back. Sad but at least they won’t add more sanctions.

      • cfgaussian@lemmygrad.ml
        15·
        1 year ago

        It’s actually more than that, it means that they plan on increasing bilateral trade and economic ties in a massive way such that the old sanctions will become increasingly obsolete as they will simply develop more and more ways of circumventing them.

        In effect the sanctions will still be there (because it’s virtually impossible to lift Security Council sanctions ever as the West has veto power) but they will be an empty formality. Make no mistake, these developments that we’re seeing are HUGE.

      • OrnluWolfjarl@lemmygrad.ml
        12·
        1 year ago

        Announcing this now though, is an indication of intentions. And the intentions are probably to raise trade with DPRK as a first stage. There’s also a possibility that DPRK might attempt to join BRICS for trading.

  • DankZedong @lemmygrad.ml
    21·
    1 year ago

    Why exactly was China sanctioning the DPRK?

    Also, good for them. The DPRK is a country of enormous potential ideology wise, people wise and resources wise.

    • afellowkid@lemmygrad.mlEnglish
      16·
      1 year ago

      I don’t recall the exact details as I believe it was the usual UN demands about DPRK’s missile launches, but basically China went along with a round of security council sanctions adopted in 2017, which meant that petroleum exports become more restricted and thousands of people from DPRK who were working in China had to go home and a bunch of joint ventures were forced to shut down as well. However, in 2022, China and Russia vetoed a new round of US-sponsored UN sanctions on DPRK, and recommended lifting some of the earlier sanctions, as they felt the US had failed to engage in its end of diplomacy with DPRK, and therefore the earlier sanctions should be reduced and no further ones should be imposed.

    • SimulatedLiberalism [none/use name]@hexbear.netEnglish
      1·
      1 year ago

      It’s UN Security Council sanctions. They are not lifting existing sanctions, just not implementing new sanctions on the DPRK.

      In Russia, there are two versions about why Russia participated in the sanctioning of DPRK.

      First, is that Russia wanted to appease the West so they went along with the sanctions.

      Second, is that China wanted the DPRK to stop developing its nuclear weapons (remember the Chinese leadership has a lot of libs who love America at one point, especially before Trump), but the DPRK didn’t listen (good decision, considering what happened to Libya) so China decided to punish DPRK from the UNSC as a warning, and dragging Russia to go along with it.

      Both versions are not mutually exclusive.