[Photo] Announcement of the Establishment of the North Korea Sanctions Monitoring Organization

Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula due to North Korea's claim of a 'South Korean drone infiltrating Pyongyang' and the demolition of the inter-Korean connecting road, on the 16th at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno, Seoul, Kim Hong-kyun, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs (center), along with Kurt Campbell, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and Masataka Okano, Deputy Minister of Foreign Affairs of Japan, announced measures related to sanctions against North Korea. Photo by Jo Yong-jun.