EU sanctions North Korean, Russian targets for supporting DPRK weapons programs

The EU has introduced new sanctions targeting North Koreans and Russian entities for allegedly contributing to Pyongyang’s weapons of mass destruction programs.

The designations announced Monday are part of the EU’s largest sanctions package to date covering 1,569 individuals and entities primarily in Russia’s military industrial complex, also including a section pertaining to Russia’s growing cooperation with North Korea.

The European Council wrote in its press release that it added three individuals and four entities to its autonomous DPRK sanctions list, identifying them as “responsible for supporting, promoting or facilitating activities” contributing to North Korea’s nuclear, ballistic and weapons of

Shreyas Reddy is the Lead Correspondent at NK News, based in Seoul. He previously worked as a researcher at BBC Monitoring, where his work focused on news and key people and organizations from the Korean Peninsula, Japan, Southeast Asia and the Pacific. Follow him on Twitter.