North Korea calls new US-led sanctions monitoring team ‘unlawful’

North Korea’s top diplomat on Sunday (Oct 20) criticised a new sanctions monitoring team led by the United States as “unlawful and illegitimate”, warning countries involved in the entity would face a “dear price”.

The 11-member team was named earlier this month after Russia in March vetoed the renewal of a panel of UN experts monitoring international sanctions on North Korea, imposed for its banned nuclear and weapons programmes.

Since the Russian veto, South Korea and its allies have worked to apply different methods to monitor…