Russia’s foreign ministry on Tuesday claimed success in having revised what it claimed had initially been a UNSC sanctions resolution that had risked “disastrous” humanitarian consequences for North Korea.

“Through intensive work with China to coordinate the resolution text, [Russia] has succeeded in revising the U.S.’s super-hard resolution, which focused on defoliating North Korea’s economy and risked catastrophic humanitarian influence on North Korean,” the ministry said, in comments carried by Russia’s TASS and South Korea’s Yonhap.

“We proceed from the fact that sanctions against North Korea should be geared exclusively at pushing its authorities to abandon their missile and nuclear