The new sanctions include denying reentry to foreign residents of Japan who are engineers in nuclear- and missile-related fields and who travel to North Korea; banning remittances to North Korea, except those of ¥100,000 or less for humanitarian purposes; and barring the entry of third-country vessels that have visited North Korean ports.
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While China was angered by the launch, it has also expressed concern at plans by Washington and Seoul to deploy an advanced US missile defense system, saying it would impact upon China’s own security.
David Kang said North Korea’s nuclear program could be funded indirectly by Kaesong.
Asked about the zone’s shutdown, Chinese spokesman Hong said the peninsula was in a “complex and sensitive” phase. The US Strategic Command said that it had detected a missile entering space, and South Korea’s military reported that the rocket had put an object into orbit.
Following North Korea’s fourth nuclear test last month and long-range rocket launch on February 7-seen by many countries as a missile test-South Korean President Park Geun-hye called for “bone-numbing” global sanctions on North Korea.
Hong explained that the South had not acted sooner because “the global community recognized the significance” of the Kaesong complex, which was a key legacy of the first inter-Korean summit in 2000.
Ruling Saenuri Party’s floor leader Won Yoo-chul, who is at the center of calls for nuclear armament among some conservative politicians, said earlier in the day, “Our country should consider survival strategies including (the ability) to react with nuclear weapons and missiles in the right of self-defense”.
An official at the South’s Ministry of Unification acknowledged on Monday that Ri Myong-su was appointed as the chief of the General Staff of the Korean People’s Army of North to replace Ri Yong-gil. During the entire presidency of President Lee Myung-bak (2008-2013) and more than half of Park Geun-hye’s – eight years altogether – the government never reversed or even revised this statement.
“The more China’s policy in this regard departs from public opinion, the more political cost China has to pay”, it wrote. An additional amount equivalent to 15% of wages is collected from companies by the General Bureau for “social insurance premiums”.
According to the probe report, the Internet Protocol address used to send the emails was traced to China’s northeastern province of Liaoning bordering North Korea.
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“About 70 per cent of the United States dollars paid in wages are taken by the government, while the workers are only given tickets to buy food and other essential items, as well as some local currency”. “This is just the larger trend the administration has identified”.
