The United States Tuesday imposed sanctions against two North Korean entities said to be involved in that country's missile and nuclear programs. A State Department announcement said a North Korean company, the Korea Tangun Trading Corporation, and the communist country's General Bureau of Atomic Energy were being added to a list of North Korean entities facing U.S. economic sanctions.
So we're finally getting around to sanctioning their Bureau of Atomic Energy? Maybe someday we could sanction their Center for Long-Distance Missiles? | The two were sanctioned by the United Nations in July. Under Tuesday's action, any assets they might have in the United States would be frozen and U.S. citizens barred from dealing with them.
The U.S. administration is been pursuing a two-track strategy of economic pressure and diplomacy to try to revive the Chinese-sponsored six-party talks on the North Korean nuclear program, which broke down last year. |