United Nations Security Council
The United Nations Security Council is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations, charged with the primary responsibility for maintaining international peace and security. It comprises fifteen members: five permanent members (China, France, Russia, the United Kingdom, and the United States) and ten non-permanent members elected by the UN General Assembly for two-year terms. Council resolutions are binding on all UN member states and may authorise sanctions, peacekeeping operations, or military action in response to threats to peace. Its seat is at UN Headquarters in New York City.
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Up to 25,000 North Koreans work at Russian drone plants, sanctions monitors say
A multilateral sanctions monitoring report cited by Bloomberg says up to 25,000 North Korean citizens work at Russian drone production facilities, including the Alabuga special economic zone in Tatarstan, where the Geran-2 drone is produced. Russian payments to these workers generated hundreds of millions of dollars for the DPRK regime in 2025, most of it confiscated by Pyongyang. North Korean laborers are brought into Russia on student visas to evade sanctions.