US imposes new sanctions on North Korea
The United States on Wednesday (May 27) imposed sanctions on two Russian banks, a North Korean company and an individual, for supporting North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction program.
According to Reuters news agency, the US made the decision to increase pressure on Pyongyang over new ballistic missile launches.
The latest US move comes a day after Russia and China voted to veto a US-led effort to impose more UN sanctions on the US. North Korea because of the country’s ballistic missile launches. The United States says that since the beginning of this year, North Korea has conducted six intercontinental ballistic missile tests and there are signs that Pyongyang is preparing to test nuclear for the first time since 2017.
The US Treasury Department said it had targeted the Koryo aviation trade group and two Russian financial institutions, Far Eastern Bank and Sputnik Bank, for their contribution to procurement and revenue generation for the institutions. North Korea.
Washington also listed Jong Yong Nam, a representative of an organization of the Korean Academy of Natural Sciences in Belarus, as supporting North Korean organizations involved in ballistic missile development.
The North Korean mission to the United Nations has not yet responded to a request for comment on the sanctions.
“The United States will continue to deploy and enforce existing sanctions, while urging North Korea to return,” said Brian Nelson, Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence. diplomatic path and give up weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles”.
Late yesterday, top diplomats from South Korea, Japan and the United States issued a joint statement saying that North Korea has “significantly increased the speed and scale of its ballistic missile launches since its inception.” from September 2021″.
Hoai Linh
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