Why have the DPRK, Laos, and Viet Nam not expressed interest in joining BRICS+?
Why have the DPRK, Laos, and Viet Nam not expressed interest in joining BRICS+?
Question in title.
Vietnam is easy, they don't want the ire of the US. They're threading the needle of getting US support because the US + China are unfriendly while not upsetting anyone too much.
Some members of BRICS are currently taking part in sanctions against DPRK and aren't likely to stop as they don't want to give up trade with the US or Europe for it, so their application would be rejected as it requires all 5 founding members to agree to the application until a new criteria system is official.
I don't know enough about Laos to guess.
Pretty sure every single member are taking part in sanctions against DPRK lol
I believe only China and Russia are trading with DPRK off the books and even then it's in limited amounts
Yeah I say "some" purely because it's obvious China and Russia aren't sticking to them.
The issue is ultimately that the value in remaining partners with US/EU is too high. Until that relationship collapses DPRK is shit out of luck with BRICS.