Companies from Russia, Kazakhstan and Slovakia fell under US sanctions on North Korea

The United States added companies from RUSSIA, Kazakhstan and Slovakia to the sanctions list for links with the DPRK, which, according to Washington, are associated with a Slovak citizen who tried to mediate in the arms trade between Russia and the DPRK US Department of the Treasury building

The United States has added four legal entities and one person to the sanctions list associated with the DPRK, according to the Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) of the US Treasury.

Among those sanctioned are three organizations that Washington links to Ashot Mkrtychev, who was previously on the list :

Defense Engineering, registered in Kazakhstan; Verus LLC, registered in Russia (according to the RBC Company service, Mkrtychev is its founder); Versor, registered in Slovakia (according to the information on the website, is engaged in the sale of defense products.

Mkrtychev, a Slovak citizen of Azerbaijani origin, came under US sanctions at the end of March. In Washington, he was accused of trying to mediate arms deals between Russia and North Korea. Also, since the beginning of August, he has been on the UK sanctions list for similar actions. Mkrtychev denied mediation in the arms trade between Russia and North Korea.

Also under the sanctions were a citizen of Libya and the National Association for the Protection and Development of Forests, the Environment and Animal HEALTH “Greens Without Borders”, registered there, which the United States considers associated with the Shiite group Hezbollah (United States, CANADA, Australia, Israel , the Arab League states and partly the EU consider it a terrorist organization (in Russia the movement is not considered as such).

The United States first announced the supply of weapons to Russia from the DPRK at the end of December last year, declaring a violation of a UN Security Council resolution. Russian Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Maria Zakharova then denied these allegations. BLOOMBERG wrote on January 30 that even modest deliveries from the DPRK would provide the Kim Jong-un regime with an economic revival .

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In February, John Kirby, strategic communications coordinator at the US National Security Council, alleged that the DPRK had supplied Russia with infantry munitions and missiles. He showed a picture which, he said, was the first delivery of arms by rail linking the two countries. “The picture shows that on November 18, five Russian railcars left Russia for North Korea. The next day, November 19, North Korea loaded these wagons - wagons with sea containers, and the train returned to Russia, ”Kirby said.

Russian Ambassador to the DPRK Alexander Matsegora called the accusations false, adding that drugs , FLOUR , some transit goods from CHINA are imported from North Korea by rail . Pyongyang also rejected the supply of weapons to Moscow.

At the end of July, Russian Defense Minister Sergei Shoigu visited North Korea. Then US Secretary of State Anthony Blinken connected this visit with the supply of weapons.