The US sanctions prohibit US dealings with the designated companies and freezes any assets they have in the United States. The latest sanctions showed there was some “leakage” in North Korea sanctions enforcement by China, but it was mostly abiding by UN resolutions, a senior US official told reporters on condition of anonymity. They pointed to a recent UN report that North Korea continued to defy UN sanctions with an increase in smuggling of petroleum products and coal and violation of bans on arms sales. A UN sanctions panel said in the report Liaoning Danxing was suspected of illicitly shipping Mercedes-Benz limousines to North Korea. Last July, the Netherlands seized a cargo of Belarusian vodka, also banned as luxury goods, en route to North Korea via the company, it said.

Source: bd News24 March 22, 2019 09:11 UTC