Donald Trump administration of United States activated new sanctions against North Korea that had been maintaining its missile and nuclear development. The unilateral sanctions of US, which is the biggest one to despotic North Korean regime, is applied to 56 individual, entities and shipping firms, which were doubted as being involved in illegal export to the North. So, how does it work for Kim Jong-un to refrain from the development, anyway?
US Department of Treasury sanctioned one person with passport of Taiwan, 27 companies from North Korea, China, Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore, Africa or Middle America, and 28 freight ships. They are thought as involved in smuggling North Korean products in a way that exchanging the cargo in high seas. Those activities can be recognized as violating United Nations Security Council’s resolutions to put pressure on North Korea.
New sanctions show seriousness of Trump administration on pressuring North Korea. “The President is clearly frustrated and rightly so over the efforts that have failed in the past and also over the uptick in testing and advances we’ve seen bin the North Korean program,” told a senior administration official, according to a report of Reuters. Reuters quoted an analysis of an expert in a think tank in Washington DC that the only thing missing was action against Chinese banks which had been undermining the effort of isolating North Korea.
One remarkable thing in new sanctions is US determination to put maximum pressure on Kim regime. “If the sanctions don’t work, we’ll have to go phase two,” said Trump in his press conference with Australian Premier Malcolm Turnbull. “Phase two may be a very rough thing, may be very, very unfortunate for the world. But hopefully the sanctions will work.”
As expected, Shinzo Abe administration immediately supported new US sanctions against North Korea. “We firmly support it as enhancement of US pressure on North Korea,” told Minister of Defense Itsunori Onodera. He also stressed close communication between Japan and US, referring to exchanging information obtained by Japan Maritime Self-defense Force about reloading cargo in the high seas.
Included in the list of illegal activities, China opposed US sanction. “China seriously opposes the US side enacting unilateral sanctions and ‘long-armed jurisdiction’ in accordance with its domestic law against Chinese entities or individuals,” told China’s Foreign Ministry. The comment was nothing but a declaration that China would not refrain from having connection with North Korea. Whether unilateral sanctions will work matters.
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