Sentences with phrase «sanctions against north»

As a result of this political theater, various entities have issued sanctions against North Korea, including the UN.

Yesterday, the UN Security Council imposed fresh sanctions against North Korea a week after it conducted its sixth and largest nuclear test to date.

But no recent hack has ruffled more feathers than the Sony hack, which led the U.S. government to levy sanctions against North Korea for their alleged role in the hack.

International Trump says launching «largest - ever» package of sanctions against North Korea, Reuters UN identifies South Sudan military officers accused of war crimes, The Guardian

Hodge also described a report in the Guardian that offshore companies in the British Virgin Islands and Anguilla had allegedly been used to circumvent US sanctions against North Korea as disturbing.

He did everything to refute any charge of appeasement, as he strongly supported further sanctions against the North and intensified military exercises with the US.

This becomes even more obvious, since recently (2 / Mar / 2016) the Russia has not blocked UNSC adoption of a new resolution encompassing sanctions against North Korea, «the strongest U.N. sanctions in 20 years.»

The agency said that ZTE lied to American officials about punishing employees who violated US sanctions against North Korea and Iran.

International Trump says launching «largest - ever» package of sanctions against North Korea, Reuters UN identifies South Sudan military officers accused of war crimes, The Guardian

The panel of experts monitoring sanctions against North Korea said in its latest report in March that it «continues to be targeted by a sophisticated hacking campaign,» first noted in 2017.

The United Nations Security Council on Monday unanimously approved new sanctions against North Korea, the harshest yet — capping North Korea's oil imports, banning textile exports, ending additional overseas labor contracts.

Nikki Haley spoke to reporters following the announcement of tough new sanctions against North Korea.

The U.N. Security Council, including China, approved tough new sanctions against North Korea Monday.

In Moscow, Russia's Foreign Ministry said that it was working behind the scenes to find a political solution and that using sanctions against North Korea was almost exhausted.

While repeatedly calling for dialogue to resolve the issue, China has also signed up for increasingly tough UN sanctions against North Korea.

China, North Korea's biggest trading partner, has joined United Nations sanctions against the North that have cut trade between them by around 90 percent.

On Monday, barely a week after China voted in favor of tough new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, the Trump administration launched an investigation into whether China is pirating the intellectual property of American firms under Section 301 of the 1974 Trade Act.

Trump also said the U.S. was considering tighter sanctions against North Korea.

Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said that the Trump administration's tough economic sanctions against North Korea are the reason leader Kim Jong Un is considering peace talks.

Not exact matches

Rightly or wrongly, many Chinese officials feel China has done its share and more in restricting trade with North Korea — only for Trump to push ahead with tough trade sanctions against China anyway.

From his first meeting with Xi, Trump promised that if China would cooperate in tightening economic sanctions on North Korea, the US would refrain from taking a hard line against what it perceived to be China's unfair trade practices.

Trump's threat to hit North Korea came as that nation — reacting to new United Nations sanctions against its nuclear program — warned the U.S. would «pay dearly» and said it was examining plans to fire a missile toward an American military base on Guam.

Earlier Tuesday, the U.S. Treasury added more than a dozen individuals and companies to its roster of blacklisted North Korea - related entities, an escalation of the Justice Department's focus on tightening sanctions against Pyongyang.

The United States on Tuesday imposed sanctions against 13 Chinese and North Korean organizations Washington accused of helping evade nuclear restrictions against Pyongyang and supporting the country through trade of commodities like coal.

U.N. diplomats say the two countries have started discussions on a possible U.N. sanctions resolution in response to the nuclear test earlier this month, but Beijing has not said directly whether it will support tougher steps against North Korea.

He said the latest and toughest sanctions resolutions against North Korea «are working, having an effect on the situation... on the capacity of the regime to obtain hard currency because to go along with the military programs or missile or nuclear (programs) you need money, and that's the objective.»

US sanctions against Russian state conglomerate Rostec, as well as a dispute over North - South pipeline transport fees, have held up the $ 2 billion project since it was signed in 2015.

Just as Western countries impose sanctions on rogue states like North Korea, Alberta Premier Rachel Notley has announced her intention to make ordinary British Columbians feel economic pain, so they turn against their leader.

The North had already warned against any sanctions.

At the same time, the NCC calls for the unification of North and South Korea, without reference to the oppression, including religious oppression, in the North, and condemns sanctions against Cuba, which it blames for the economic disappointments of Fidel's revolution.

The Senate has approved a new package of stiff financial sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea.

The plot seemed confirmed when leaders of Anambra North senatorial zone in a meeting on Monday resolved to sanction any person or group of persons that went against the ambition of the zone to produce the next governor of Anambra State.

Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand was in North Syracuse on Tuesday and she responded to Sen. Charles Schumer's decision to vote against the Obama administration's Iran nuclear deal, which would lift U.S., China, Russia and European Union sanctions on Iran in exchange for limits put on Iran's nuclear program.

Remember, we can use military or economic sanctions against you — think of Iran, or North Korea.»

As the U.N. Council approved new sanctions which went against North Korean economy by capping imports of crude oil and banning condensates and natural gas, the hacking activity might just get a newfound impetus to sustain its financial requirement.

A cybersecurity firm has warned that North Korea is launching hacking attacks to accrue bitcoins and other cryptocurrencies as a means of circumventing the stiff sanctions brought against the country by the United Nations.

A congressional bill that President Donald Trump recently signed into law established new sanctions against Russia, Iran and North Korea included a short note about studying cryptocurrency to identify «emerging illicit finance threats.»