South Korea condemned the transfer of weapons between North Korea and Russia as a direct violation of United Nations Security Council (UNSC) sanctions at a council meeting on Monday.

Hwang Joon-kook, the country’s U.N.  ambassador, also denounced DPRK foreign minister Choe Son Hui’s recent meeting with her Russian counterpart and leader Vladimir Putin.  

“The introduction of North Korean missiles into the war in Ukraine has a significant implication on global nuclear non-proliferation as well as on the Korean Peninsula,” Hwang said. 

Choe’s “alarming” visit to Moscow points to continued interest in these sorts of exchanges, the ambassador