US Sanction against North Korea

North Korea punished by US over sinking of warship
Barack Obama widens scope of US sanctions, in part to punish Pyongyang for incident in March

Reuters, Monday 30 August 2010 19.47 BST

President Barack Obama today froze the US assets of three North Korean organisations and one individual, a US official said, in part to punish Pyongyang for the sinking of a South Korean warship in March with the loss of 46 lives. Obama signed an order to widen the scope of US sanctions to allow Washington to go after the assets of North Korean organisations that trade in conventional arms and luxury products, and that counterfeit US currency. North Korea last week released US citizen Aijalon Gomes, who had been sentenced to eight years' hard labour for entering the country illegally.

米国政府が北朝鮮に新たな経済制裁を大統領令で科したというロイター電｡同日の財務省発表文とFact Sheet､Stuart Levey財務次官の会見文｡北朝鮮の役人が過去30年間に日本などで薬物取引にかかわっていたとサラリと触れているが､今はどうなのだろう｡

http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg839.htm
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg840.htm
http://www.ustreas.gov/press/releases/tg841.htm

同日､国務省で開かれた定例会見のやりとり｡北朝鮮問題について､日本の立場から見て突っ込んだ質疑はされていない模様｡

http://www.state.gov/r/pa/prs/dpb/2010/08/146439.htm