Japan extends sanctions on North Korea after missile

[Coventina]

Source: Reuters

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japan will extend by a year economic sanctions against North Korea, including a ban on imports, and tighten oversight of fund transfers to its secretive neighbor after a rocket launch, the government said on Friday.

Pyongyang said it had put a satellite into orbit but Tokyo, Seoul and Washington consider last Sunday's launch a thinly disguised test of a long-range missile designed to carry a warhead as far as Alaska.

The U.S. military has said no object entered orbit.

In a largely symbolic measure, Japan will extend existing sanctions for a year and require more money sent to the cash-strapped communist country to be reported to authorities.

Sanctions previously set for six months have been extended four times since they began in 2006, with Japan citing lack of progress in talks to denuclearize the North and to investigate Pyongyang's past abduction of Japanese citizens.



Read more: http://uk.reuters.com/article/usTopNews/idUKT26328320090410

[tomm2thumbs]

1. you mean less caviar and kobe beef? awwww, those rich NKoreans will have to shop Russia

if Israel truly is going to try something on Iran's nuclear set-up, I'd hand 'em an extra $100 bucks (mill) and say 'can you do something about N Korea while you're at it?

[ConcernedCanuk]

2. And that will accomplish exactly . . . what?

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