UNITED NATIONS — The United Nations Security Council has approved new sanctions against North Korea aimed at cutting off funding for its nuclear and ballistic missile programs. The session included remarks from U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, who rarely attends council votes. “Today’s resolution includes the toughest and most comprehensive sanctions regime ever imposed by the Security […]
After North Korea’s largest-ever test of a nuclear device in early September, the United States is taking an unprecedented hardline stance to curb the reclusive regime’s accelerated pursuit of nuclear development. The U.S. Treasury announced last week that it had sanctioned China’s Dandong Hongxiang Industrial Development and four of its executives. The Treasury accused the […]
Following yesterday’s announcement by South Korea that they suspected that North Korea had detonated a nuclear device, North Korea told the world today that they had, in fact, detonated their largest nuclear device to date. North Korea did not notify the international community in advance of yesterday’s test which marked North Korea’s 68th anniversary of […]
SEOUL—North Korea’s defiant and accelerated efforts to develop an advanced nuclear arsenal have not been deterred, so far, by the tough new United Nations sanctions imposed in March. The latest infraction of U.N. resolutions banning Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs occurred Thursday, when the North attempted another intermediate range ballistic missile launch. But the […]