According to Yonhap News Agency, the South Korean Ministry of Foreign Affairs announced on a certain date that South Korea, the United States, Japan, and other countries have established a multinational sanctions monitoring group regarding North Korea sanctions.

The report states that due to the expiration and dissolution of the term of the expert panel of the United Nations Security Council's North Korea Sanctions Committee, South Korea, the United States, Japan, France, the United Kingdom, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand have established a multinational sanctions monitoring group outside the framework of the United Nations.

It is reported that the monitoring group is expected to serve as the expert panel of the North Korea Sanctions Committee, real-time monitoring of activities violating and evading sanctions against North Korea, sharing relevant information, and issuing outcome reports.

According to a previous report by the Korean Central News Agency, Kim Song, the Permanent Representative of the Democratic People's Republic of Korea to the United Nations, stated that the attempts by the United States and other Western countries to form a new expert group for the sanctions committee on North Korea will fail. Kim Song said, "Despite the hostile forces creating second and third expert groups, as time passes, they are destined to naturally disappear."