{"id":1759704,"date":"2022-12-02T06:30:30","date_gmt":"2022-12-02T11:30:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759704"},"modified":"2022-12-02T10:34:07","modified_gmt":"2022-12-02T15:34:07","slug":"u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-three-north-korea-officials-following-icbm-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/u-s-imposes-sanctions-on-three-north-korea-officials-following-icbm-test\/","title":{"rendered":"U.S. Imposes Sanctions on Three North Korea Officials Following ICBM Test"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">22<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fu-s-imposes-sanctions-on-three-north-korea-officials-following-icbm-test%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1759704&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><div id=\"\">\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three senior North Korean officials connected to the country\u2019s weapons programs after Pyongyang\u2019s latest and largest intercontinental ballistic missile test last month.<\/p>\n<p>The U.S. Treasury Department named the individuals as Jon Il Ho, Yu Jin, and Kim Su Gil, all of whom were designated for sanctions by the European Union in April.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>The latest sanctions follow a Nov. 18 ICBM test by North Korea and amid concerns that it may be about to resume nuclear bomb testing suspended since 2017.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>A Treasury statement said Jon Il Ho and Yu Jin played major roles in the development of North Korea\u2019s weapons of mass destruction while serving as vice director and director, respectively, of the North Korea\u2019s Munitions Industry Department.<\/p>\n<p>It said Kim Su Gil served as director of the Korean People\u2019s Army General Political Bureau from 2018 to 2021 and oversaw the implementation of decisions related to the WMD program.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTreasury is taking action in close trilateral coordination with the Republic of Korea and Japan against officials who have had leading roles in the DPRK\u2019s unlawful WMD and ballistic missile programs,\u201d Under Secretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Brian Nelson said in the statement.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>\u201cRecent launches demonstrate the need for all countries to fully implement U.N. Security Council resolutions, which are intended to prevent the DPRK from acquiring the technologies, materials, and revenue Pyongyang needs to develop its prohibited WMD and ballistic missile capabilities.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>DPRK are the initials of North Korea\u2019s official name, the Democratic People\u2019s Republic of Korea.<\/p>\n<p>The sanctions freeze any U.S.-based assets of the individuals and bars dealing with them.<\/p>\n<p>Decades of U.S.-led sanctions have failed to halt North Korea\u2019s increasingly sophisticated missile and nuclear weapon programs, and China and Russia have blocked recent efforts to impose more United Nations sanctions, saying they should instead be eased to jumpstart talks and avoid humanitarian harm.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<div>\n<h2 class=\"visually-hidden\">Article content<\/h2>\n<p>National Security Advisor Jake Sullivan said earlier that Washington was committed to using pressure and diplomacy to entice North Korea into giving up its nuclear arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>Sullivan said the administration has no illusions about the challenges, but that the United States remained committed to holding North Korea accountable.<\/p>\n<p>The last round of U.S. sanctions in October targeted two Singapore-registered companies and a Marshall Islands-registered firm that Washington said support Pyongyang\u2019s weapons programs and its military. (Reporting by David Brunntrom, Chris Gallagher and Daphne Psaledakis; Editing by Sandra Maler)<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Article content WASHINGTON \u2014 The United States on Thursday imposed sanctions on three senior North Korean officials connected to the country\u2019s weapons programs after Pyongyang\u2019s latest and largest intercontinental<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2315279,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[547],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1759704","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-bongino-report"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759704","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1759704"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1759704\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2315279"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1759704"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1759704"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1759704"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}