S. Korea to shut down joint industrial park with N. Korea

“The kind of belligerence we’ve seen from Pyongyang must not be ignored”, Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, a Kentucky Republican, said Tuesday.

The country lifted some sanctions on North Korea in July 2014 after Pyongyang agreed to reopen an investigation into the fate of Japanese citizens abducted decades ago by North Korean agents to help train spies.

The resolution urged Pyongyang to return to being a responsible member of the global community by giving up its nuclear and missile programmes and stopping provocations.

The restrictions ban entry of all North Korean ships to Japan ports and add other limits to travel between the two countries, according to a statement from Chief Cabinet Secretary Yoshihide Suga on February 10.

Japan says it is to stop money being sent to North Korea.

“While China could exert pressure on North Korea through economic sanctions to encourage the regime to desist, the Xi administration prefers to remain on good terms with North Korean regime, putting the entire region at risk”, he said. Cory Gardner (R-Colo.), and will hinder Pyonyang’s ability to finance their nuclear program.

On Sunday, North Korea launched a satellite into space, as reported by TRUNEWS, and it flew over Levi Stadium just after the Super Bowl ended.

Under the Senate bill, penalties for the sanctionable activities would include the seizure of assets, visa bans and denial of government contracts.

Underscoring the difficulty of understanding North Korea’s actual intentions, Clapper said the USA does not know whether North Korea would use nuclear weapons for defensive or retaliatory purposes.

Both findings will deepen concern that North Korea is not only making technical advances in its nuclear weapons program, but is working to expand what is thought to be a small nuclear arsenal.

The North Koreans “may detain one or two South Korean nationals and try to use them as a bargaining chip for future negotiations”, said Lee In-Bae, director of the Seoul-based Korea Peninsula Future Forum.

The legislation calls for the mandatory blacklisting of those assisting Pyongyang with its nuclear and missile programs, human rights abuses, cyberattacks and other crimes.

“We assess that North Korea has followed through on its announcement by expanding its Yongbyon enrichment facility and restarting the plutonium production reactor”, he said in the report.

South Korea said Wednesday it has chose to “completely” shut down a joint industrial complex in North Korea in response to the North’s recent nuclear test and long-range rocket launch. Bob Corker, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said he does not expect any difficulty in producing a final measure.