US intends to monitor North Korean nuclear weapons with or without UN, ambassador says [Video]

• Russia’s veto of a U.N. resolution effectively ended the monitoring of Security Council sanctions against North Korea by U.N. experts.
• At a Seoul press conference, U.S. Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield said the U.S. would work with South Korea and Japan to continue monitoring North Korea’s weapons programs.
• Thomas-Greenfield also said President Biden categorically supports a two-state solution for Israel and the Palestinians, but the U.S. does not see granting the Palestinian Authority’s request for full U.N. membership as directly working toward that end at this time.

The United States and its allies are discussing options “both inside and outside the U.N. system” to create a new mechanism for monitoring North Korea over its nuclear weapons program, the American ambassador to the United Nations said Wednesday.

Russia last month vetoed a U.N. resolution in a move that effectively abolished monitoring by U.N. experts of Security Council sanctions against North Korea, which prompted …