North Korea gets more sanction
beaten into it says Obama

beaten into it says Obama

Posted Date ::31-08-2010 01::08::07

Tags : Barack Obama ,sanctions ,North Korea ,schemes ,illegal activities,government,Penalties Iran ,Syria,United States ,counterfeiting ,illicit financial activities ,illegal activity ,UN Security Council resolutions

President Barack Obama has proposed additional sanctions against North Korea to stifle the arms smuggling schemes and illegal activities by the government. The sanctions are aimed specifically Office 39 - a secret branch of the North Korean government that manages slush funds and raise funds for management, including drug trafficking. Penalties are also for infrastructure in North Korea to import and export of conventional weapons - Green Pine Associated Corporation and its parent, the General Reconnaissance Office and the Bureau Commander, Lt. Gen. Kim Yong Chol.

Other units have two days of trading companies, Korea Taesong Trading Company and Korea Heungjin Trading Company, which acted on behalf of North Korean arms dealer KOMID in transactions involving Iran and Syria.

"The order gives the government new authority to the United States to go after the arms sales and the acquisition of goods, money laundering, counterfeiting and other illicit financial activities that enrich the highest levels of government North Korea while the North Korean people suffer, "Under Secretary Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey, said that after Obama issued an executive order. Noting that the world is well aware of North Korea the government's illegal activity and his belligerent behavior, Levey said, decided that North Korea has continued provocations - as the unprovoked attack Cheonan South Korean warship in March of this year led to the sinking of the ship and killing 46 sailors, his test of a nuclear weapon and missile launches in 2009, its violations of UN resolutions 1718 and 1874, and its misleading and deceptive the international markets - justify additional sanctions.

Destructive, that the North Korean government is to help identify the cash flow from a series of illegal activities. The North Korean government to help preserve his authority and placate the privileged elite of money and benefits, such articles luxuries such as jewelry, luxury cars and yachts," he said. "Besides that violate the UN Security Council Resolution 1718, but are not, given that many of North Korea live in extreme poverty," Levey said, adding that the North Korean government gets millions of dollars each year for exports weapons are prohibited by the UN Security Council resolutions.

 

 
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