Russia Against Sanction on North Korea

This is really no surprise but Moscow has come out and defended North Korea against US sanctions:

Russia opposes any kind of sanctions against what the United States calls rogue states such as Iran and North Korea, Glev Ivashentsov, Moscow’s top diplomat to Seoul, said on Tuesday.
His remarks came as U.S. and North Korean officials were to hold a meeting in New York later in the day amid Washington’s financial sanctions against Pyongyang for the communist state’s alleged counterfeiting of U.S. dollars.

“In principle, we are against any economic sanctions because they do not work,” Ivashentsov told The Korea Times after a forum hosted by the Korea News Editors’ Association in Seoul.

“There should be dialogue, there should be consultation, but sanctions do not work neither against North Korea, nor against Iran, nor against any other country,” he said.

Sanctions don’t work? Sanctions and the threat of armed force worked well with Libya didn’t it?

Russia is just eager to keep selling nuclear technology to Iran and they have to defend North Korea against sanctions to protect their investment in Iran which could face similar sanctions due to their illicit nuclear activities.