[국제]US sanctions Saudi Arabia, but excluding Crown Prince “approved assassination of Kashukji”

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The United States has imposed sanctions against Saudi Arabia in the assassination of Saudi Arabian journalist Jamal Kashqji.

However, Crown Prince Muhammad Binsalman, who judged that US intelligence officials had approved the assassination of Kashukji, was excluded from sanctions.

Reporter Kim Jin-ho.

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Kashqji, a dissident who criticized the Saudi royal family as a columnist for the Washington Post in the United States, was murdered in a brutal manner at the Saudi consulate in Istanbul, Turkey in October 2018, and no body was finally found.

The U.S. National Intelligence Service released and released a secret document that assessed that the case was an assassination approved by Saudi Crown Prince Bin Salman, who was in power in Saudi Arabia.

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In a statement, the Saudi Arabian Ministry of Foreign Affairs refuted, “It completely rejects the negative, false and unacceptable evaluation of the report on the leadership,” and “the report contains inaccurate information and conclusions.”

However, the US government has imposed sanctions against Saudi Arabia on the assassination of Kashqji based on the judgment in this document.

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However, Crown Prince Binsalman, who judged that the US intelligence authorities approved the assassination, was not subject to sanctions.

In the Middle East, where many countries are not friendly to the United States, sanctions against the crown prince of Saudi Arabia, a representative ally along with Israel, seem to take into account the situation where it is compelling to worry about a crunch in bilateral relations.

It can be said that the Biden administration has made a compromise to minimize the negative impact between the two countries, while giving the impression that it has taken some action to Saudi Arabia and emphasized the importance of human rights by releasing the report.

Although the document was released to differentiate it from former President Trump, who had maintained a close relationship with the crown prince without pretending to be assassinated by Kashukji, the absence of the key measure of sanctions on the crown was evaluated as a result of reflecting the reality of relations with Saudi Arabia and the status of the crown prince. .

This is YTN Kim Jin-ho.

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