After failed UN vote, US slaps new sanctions on North Korea-linked entities

The U.S. designated one particular person and three entities accused of aiding North Korea’s weapons applications on Friday, sooner or later after the U.N. failed to position further sanctions on Pyongyang for a sequence of long-range missile assessments.

In a press launch saying the designations, an official from the Treasury Division’s Workplace of Overseas Belongings Management (OFAC) mentioned the federal government was concentrating on “supporters of the DPRK’s WMD and ballistic missile applications, in addition to overseas monetary establishments which have knowingly offered vital monetary providers to the DPRK.”

The person focused within the