President Barack Obama plans to say yes to a new bill broadening USA sanctions on North Korea.
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“It is my hope that worldwide actors – like the United Nations Security Council and China – will take notice of this strong showing of USA leadership and leverage the momentum to implement similar measures”, Menendez said.
The White House announced the signing on Thursday through a statement.
The new tough stance follows South Korea’s decision to shut down an inter-Korean factory park that had been the rival Koreas’ last major symbol of cooperation, but that Seoul said had been used by North Korea to fund its nuclear and missile programs. China, a longtime sponsor of Pyongyang, has expressed concerns about measures that it worries could debilitate North Korea’s economy. A reference to the widely publicized hack on Sony Pictures in late 2014. “There is an accountability attached”, said Ging, who visited the DPRK in September 2014.
It imposes sanctions against those involved in those activities, prevents companies doing certain business with North Korea from receiving USA government contacts, and bars US aid to any foreign country that provides lethal military equipment there. North Korea claims that it detonated a hydrogen bomb in December 2015.
One of the final sections also raises the possibility of undermining North Korea’s control of information heading into the country.
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The legislation, The Trade Facilitation and Trade Enforcement Act of 2015, is part of a package that was presented to the US Congress last summer.
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The report said that the missile defense system had instead only demonstrated “a partial capability against small numbers of simple ballistic missile threats”.
