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
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.
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.
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.
why haven’t they vetoed the USs veto of lifting sanctions on cuba that everyone votes for every year for the last 40 years or whatever?
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.
It is worth noting that even as China went along with sanctions, they were arguing for a gentler approach and I think successfully derailed a couple of escalation attempts by the US. They were probably scared of being pushed away from western Bloc countries if they sided too hard with the DPRK, however unjust that treatment of True Korea is.
Even still, kinda odd that China would follow the sanctions on a neighboring country that is friendly to them. Glad to hear that things are changing
They were not exactly friendly until the last few years. China was looking to deepen its economic ties with the US and EU, and saw North Korea’s nuclear development as a nuisance to their path towards prosperity. You have to understand that, at least from 2005-2015, China has a lot of pro-Western libs who love America. I cannot emphasize enough how many of my friends saw capitalism as the way forward even as late as 5 years ago.
Of course, Trump gave China the biggest wake up call they could ever hope for, and things have never been the same since.
China has done some shady things when it comes to foreign policy. It’s actually one of the main critiques I have of china, and while the foreign policy they conduct is far better than pre-Xi, is still far too conformist and ‘pragmatic’ for my liking, especially considering it’ll benefit more nation’s if china becomes more assertive.
From giving weapons to the Philippines government to fight Filipino revolutionaries, to its participation in the Nepalese civil war in the favour of the government, instead of the communists. Still I’m hopeful china will correct this mistake soon.
uncritical support for the DPRK in its heroic struggle to liberate occupied Korea from the genocidal American empire
Death to America
Juche gang rise up
If the US gets to use its nukes then the DPRK gets to use theirs, fair is fair.
OH NO, THEY WERE SITTING IN ROWS, THIS IS FASCIST, EVERYTHING SHOULD BE DISORGANIZED AND THEY SHOULD HAVE TO WORRY ABOUT MASS SHOOTINGS JUST LIKE IN THE UNITED SHITHOLE STATES OF AMERICA!
