N. Korea denounces sanctions report as 'illegal,' calls overseas labor 'legitimate'
North Korea on Monday denounced a recent report by a U.S.-led multilateral sanctions monitoring team as illegal, accusing it of distorting normal activities as illicit ones and insisting that its overseas labor program constitutes legitimate economic ties with other countries. In a report released last week, the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) said Pyongyang continues to deploy…
North Korea rejected a recent U.S.-led sanctions monitoring team report on Monday, branding it as illegal and accusing it of mislabeling normal activities as illicit. The team's report, released last week, claimed that North Korea continues to send around 100,000 workers abroad in violation of U.N. sanctions, with a majority of these workers in China and Russia.
Additionally, the report stated that some North Korean workers were involved in manufacturing military drones in Russian factories. The North Korean foreign ministry spokesperson, speaking through the official Korean Central News Agency, described the MSMT as a plot-breeding organization that distorts normal activities as abnormal and legal activities as illegal.
The spokesperson emphasized that North Korea's relations with other countries are the exercise of legitimate rights and should not be subject to interference or investigation by third parties.
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