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US seizes North Korean cargo ship for violating sanctions

AP — The Trump administration has seized a North Korean cargo ship used to supply coal to the isolated nation in violation of international sanctions, law enforcement officials said Thursday. The seizure of the vessel, detained last month in Indonesia, comes at a delicate moment between the two countries. It… Read More

U.S. judge orders Chinese banks to hand over North Korea records

A U.S district judge has ordered three Chinese banks to comply with U.S. investigators’ demands that they hand over records connected to the alleged movement of tens of millions of dollars in violation of international sanctions on North Korea. In a heavily redacted court opinion released by the U.S. Justice… Read More

U.S. senators offer North Korea sanctions bill, backed by Warmbier parents

Two U.S. senators sought to dial up pressure on North Korea on Tuesday by reintroducing a bill to impose sanctions on any bank that does business with its government, with the endorsement of the parents of Otto Warmbier, a U.S. college student who died after being imprisoned by Pyongyang. Republican… Read More

28th February 2019

No deal: Trump, Kim summit collapses over sanctions impasse

AP — Talks between President Donald Trump and North Korea’s Kim Jong Un collapsed Thursday after the two sides failed to bridge a standoff over U.S. sanctions, a dispiriting end to high-stakes meetings meant to disarm a global nuclear threat. Trump blamed the breakdown on North Korea’s insistence that… Read More

20th February 2019

Trump says he’s in no rush to see North Korea give up nukes

AP — President Donald Trump said Tuesday that he wants to see North Korea eventually give up its nuclear weapons program, but adds he’s not in any rush because U.S. relations with Pyongyang are good going into next week’s summit. “I have no pressing time schedule,” Trump said. Trump said… Read More

2nd January 2019

Kim says ready to meet Trump ‘anytime,’ warns of ‘new path’

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un said on Tuesday he is ready to meet U.S. President Donald Trump again anytime to achieve their common goal of denuclearizing the Korean Peninsula, but warned he may have to take an alternative path if U.S. sanctions and pressure against the country continued. In… Read More

31st December 2018

Mystery hacker steals data on 1,000 North Korean defectors in South

The personal information of nearly 1,000 North Koreans who defected to South Korea has been leaked after unknown hackers got access to a resettlement agency’s database, the South Korean Unification Ministry said on Friday. The ministry said it discovered last week that the names, birth dates and addresses of 997… Read More

21st December 2018

N. Korea says it won’t denuclearize unless US removes threat

AP — North Korea said Thursday it will never unilaterally give up its nuclear weapons unless the United States first removes what Pyongyang called a nuclear threat. The surprisingly blunt statement jars with Seoul’s rosier presentation of the North Korean position and could rattle the fragile… Read More

15th November 2018

In factory after factory, Kim tries to grow N. Korea economy

AP — For North Korean factory managers, a visit by leader Kim Jong Un is the highest of honors and quite possibly the most stressful event imaginable. The chief engineer at the Songdowon General Foodstuffs Factory had looked forward to the visit for nearly a decade. Read More

7th November 2018

Banking: Swiss watchdog urges risk reviews following FATF updates on Iran, DPRK

The Financial Markets Supervisory Authority (Finma) has urged firms to update their policies in line with new information issued by global anti-money laundering body the Financial Action Task Force (FATF). New documents published include FATF’s Public Statement urging members to apply a number of counter measures to countries with ‘serious… Read More

26th October 2018

US sanctions Singapore companies over North Korea dealings

AP — The United States imposed sanctions Thursday on the Singapore-based director of a commodities company accused of laundering money for North Korea through the U.S. financial system. The Department of Justice also unsealed criminal charges against the person, Tan Wee Beng, accusing him of “a… Read More

5th October 2018

NKorea said to have stolen a fortune in online bank heists

AP — North Korea’s nuclear and missile tests have stopped, but its hacking operations to gather intelligence and raise funds for the sanction-strapped government in Pyongyang may be gathering steam. U.S. security firm FireEye raised the alarm Wednesday over a North Korean group that it says… Read More

24th September 2018

Pompeo: No end to NKorea sanctions until ‘denuclearization’

AP — Top U.S. diplomat Mike Pompeo said Sunday that economic sanctions on North Korea won’t be reduced until it completes “denuclearization” after leader Kim Jong Un offered to close the North’s main nuclear site in exchange for U.S. concessions. Kim said last week at a… Read More

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