All posts tagged "sanctions"

  • Yoon Soon-ku, right, director-general at the Ministry of National Defense's international policy division, shakes hands with Chinese defense ministry's Foreign Affairs Office Director Rear-Adm. Guan Youfei during working-level defense talks between the two countries in Yongsan-gu, Seoul, Friday. (Yonhap)
    S Korea, China split over level of sanctions on N. Korea

    SEOUL/BEIJING (Yonhap) — China is opposed to a set of tougher sanctions on North Korea proposed by South Korea, the U.S., and Japan, a diplomatic source said Friday after key direct consultations between Seoul and Beijing. Hwang...

    • Posted January 15, 2016
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  • House Foreign Affairs Committee Chairman Rep. Ed Royce, R-Calif. speaks on Capitol Hill in Washington. (AP Photo/Manuel Balce Ceneta, File)
    US House overwhelmingly passes N. Korea sanctions legislation

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly to pass a tough sanctions bill on North Korea on Tuesday in the first tangible action taken by the United States to punish the communist...

    • Posted January 12, 2016
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  • Chinese Foreign Ministry spokeswoman Hua Chunying speaks during a briefing at the Chinese Foreign Ministry in Beijing, China, Wednesday, Jan. 6, 2016. North Korea's main ally China said it "firmly opposes" Pyongyang's purported hydrogen bomb test and is monitoring the environment along its border with the North near the test site. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
    China holds key to pressing North Korea on nuclear weapons

    WASHINGTON (AP) — Diplomatic engagement has failed to stop North Korea’s nuclear weapons program. Sanctions have been tightened with little result. And military force could be catastrophic. So what can the world do to bring Kim Jong...

    • Posted January 6, 2016
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  • President Park Geun-hye, of South Korea, addresses the 69th session of the United Nations General Assembly, at U.N. headquarters, Wednesday, Sept. 24, 2014. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)
    UN pledges to pursue new sanctions against North Korea

    UNITED NATIONS (AP) — The Security Council pledged Wednesday to swiftly pursue new sanctions against North Korea, condemning its latest nuclear test as a ‘clear violation’ of previous U.N. resolutions. The sanctions would be the fifth round...

    • Posted January 6, 2016
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  • FILE - In this March 10, 2015 file photo Japanese Prime Minister Shinzo Abe speaks during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo. Abe will become the first Japanese prime minister to address a joint meeting of Congress in late April, the House speaker has announced. Foreign leaders have been accorded the honor 111 times since World War II, but not Japan, despite the tight alliance forged with the U.S. in the 70 years since 1945. (AP Photo/Eugene Hoshiko, File)/2015-03-28 05:54:39/
    Japan extends sanctions against N. Korea for 2 more years

    TOKYO (AP) — Japan plans to extend its sanctions against North Korea for two more years when they expire April 13 after failing to get promised updates on an investigation into kidnappings of Japanese citizens decades ago,...

    • Posted March 31, 2015
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  • Assistant Treasury Secretary for Terrorist Financing Daniel Glaser
    US vows to cut off N. Korea from international financial system

    By Chang Jae-soon WASHINGTON (Yonhap) — The United States will identify and impose sanctions on financial institutions doing business with North Korea so as to cut the communist nation off from the international financial system, a senior...

    • Posted January 13, 2015
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    N. Korea blasts US for sanctions over Sony attack

    SEOUL, South Korea (AP) — North Korea on Sunday criticized the United States for slapping sanctions on Pyongyang officials and organizations for a cyberattack on Sony Pictures — the latest fallout from a Hollywood movie depicting the...

    • Posted January 5, 2015
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