anchor: Analysis has been raised that North Korea is still violating sanctions against North Korea in Africa based on various relations such as history and economy with African countries. The designation is reported by the reporter.
In its report on the 25th, the US Peace Research Institute (USIP) pointed out that North Korea is evading sanctions by engaging in illegal activities in Africa using historical relations beyond simply economic interests with African countries.
The author of the report, Prof. Benjamin Young of South Dakota State University in the United States, told Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA) on the 25th, “The current relationship between North Korea and Africa is common with the historical background that African countries engaged in armed struggles with North Korea during the postcolonial period. It is based on the economic interests of Korea.”
He added, “North Korea and many African countries share anti-imperialist values for a long time and have a common belief in the Third World Revolution.”
In addition, the report also raised an analysis that North Korea and Africa are taking advantage of each other by violating sanctions on North Korea.
It is explained that through Africa, North Korea is reducing international sanctions and economic dependence on China, and many African countries also need North Korea’s cheap weapons and construction capabilities.
The report also pointed out that China is also playing an indirect role in North Korea’s activities in Africa, and it is highly likely that China has tolerated that North Koreans smuggled ivory or rhino horns from Africa and sold them on the Chinese black market.
The report also pointed out that African countries lack a mechanism for implementing sanctions, or a system, regarding UN sanctions against North Korea.
In particular, those who are against Western countries recognize the UN sanctions on North Korea as a kind of neo-colonialism, and the nine African countries that are currently sanctioned by the United States have little incentive to implement the United Nations sanctions on North Korea. Analysis.
Prof. Benjamin Young also told Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA) that “historical background played a major role” on the relationship between North Korea and African countries.
In this regard, the report added that African countries should consider their historical background as they plan strategies to implement sanctions against North Korea.
In addition, he said that African countries should draw support for the development of UN sanctions, informed of the adverse effects of North Korea’s arms industry on the African continent, and recognized that African countries were also engaging in human rights violations by hiring North Korean workers. Pointed out that it should be done.
The report stressed that the United Nations and the United States should work closely with the African Union, which includes 55 African countries, to implement sanctions.
In addition, an analysis was raised that the international community should also consider security and economic support for African countries to end their economic dependence on North Korea.
Senior researcher Michael Shurkin, an African expert at the Rand Institute of America, also told Free Asia Broadcasting (RFA) on the 25th that the international community should improve the ability of African countries to implement sanctions while providing incentives for the implementation of sanctions. Emphasized.
Senior Researcher Schrkin: If African countries are doing business with North Korea and making real gains, there should be incentives for them to implement sanctions. We need to provide incentives for African countries to really take interest in this (violation of sanctions against North Korea). (I think that there needs to be way to incentivize them to actually do this if they get tangible benefits from doing business with North Korea… it is also incentivizing African governments to actually care about this problem set.)
The report also added that the United States should continue to press China to implement full sanctions against North Korea.
Previously, in a report last month, the US non-profit international monitoring organization’Sentry’ reported that between 2018 and 2019, two North Korean businessmen named’Park Hwa-seong’ and’Hwang Gil-soo’ established a construction company in the Democratic Republic of the Congo,’Congo Acconde’. They also revealed that they were carrying out their government projects through'(Congo Aconde)’.
In this regard, the U.S. North Korean Human Rights Commission (HRNK) published a report on the 25th of North Korea’s component system and the past South Africa’s apartheid policy, that is, a policy of discrimination against non-white races in all areas, including politics, economy, and society. We have published a report of the contents to compare.
In the report, Senior Advisor Robert Collins, the author of the report, said that North Korea’s component system is very similar to South Africa’s apartheid, which can be seen as a modern form of apartheid, and thus can be defined as a’crime against humanity’. Pointed out.
Apartheid was defined as a’crime against humanity’ in accordance with the’Roman Regulations on the International Criminal Court’ and the’International Convention on the Suppression and Punishment of Apartheid Crimes’.
The report stressed that apartheid in South Africa is discrimination based on race, but North Korea also discriminates against certain groups based on social and political backgrounds in areas of residence, education, work, labor exploitation, and health care.
He also pointed out that North Korea sometimes discriminates against ingredients according to race, and points out that if a family member has Chinese or Japanese descent, this also serves as the basis for the ingredient discrimination system.
They then analyzed that all crimes against humanity caused by apartheid and the component system were implemented to maintain the political purposes, policies, and practices of each country’s government.
The report emphasized that the North Korean regime maintains the component system, saying that it is committing crimes against humanity such as apartheid, and that the Kim Jong-un regime should be held accountable for this.