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North Korea slapped with UN sanctions after nuclear test<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/h2>\n

The United Nations has imposed a fresh round of sanctions on North Korea after its sixth and largest nuclear test.<\/span><\/p>\n

The measures restrict oil imports and ban textile exports – an attempt to starve the North of fuel and income for its weapons programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US had originally proposed harsher sanctions including a total ban on oil imports.<\/span><\/p>\n

The vote was only passed unanimously after Pyongyang allies Russia and China agreed to the reduced measures.<\/span><\/p>\n

The sanctions, which were passed at a UN Security Council meeting on Monday, were met with anger by North Korea.<\/span><\/p>\n

A statement on state news agency KNCA called the US a “bloodthirsty beast obsessed with the wild dream” of reversing Pyongyang’s nuclear programme. It warned that if the US did eventually push through harsher sanctions, North Korea would “absolutely make sure that the US pays due price”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US had called for the harshest ever sanctions on North Korea including a total ban on oil imports, a measure seen by some analysts as hugely destabilising for the regime.<\/span><\/p>\n

But the new measures instead only place limits on such products. China, Pyongyang’s main economic ally, supplies most of North Korea’s crude oil.<\/span><\/p>\n

A proposed asset freeze and travel ban on leader Kim Jong-un have also been dropped.<\/span><\/p>\n

A ban on exports of textiles – Pyongyang’s second-biggest export worth more than $700m (\u00a3530m) a year – and measures to prohibit North Koreans from working overseas will go ahead.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US said Pyongyang heavily taxes its 93,000 citizens it sends abroad for work, and estimated the latter move would cut off $500m of revenue every year.<\/span><\/p>\n

The US ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, told the Security Council after the vote: “We don’t take pleasure in further strengthening sanctions today. We are not looking for war.”<\/span><\/p>\n

“The North Korean regime has not yet passed the point of no return… If it agrees to stop its nuclear program, it can reclaim its future.”<\/span><\/p>\n

South Korea has praised the measures, and a presidential office spokesman said on Tuesday: “North Korea needs to realise that a reckless challenge against international peace will only bring about even stronger sanctions against them.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Monday’s resolution was the ninth one unanimously adopted by the UN since 2006.<\/span><\/p>\n

30 November 2016: UN slapped sanctions on North Korea over its nuclear programme, targeting its valuable coal trade with China, slashing exports by about 60% under a new sales cap.<\/span><\/p>\n

Exports of copper, nickel, silver, zinc and the sale of statues were also banned<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened next? On 14 May 2017, North Korea tested what it said was a “newly developed ballistic rocket” capable of carrying a large nuclear warhead<\/span><\/p>\n

2 June 2017: UN placed new sanctions, imposing a travel ban and asset freeze on four entities and 14 officials, including the head of North Korea’s overseas spying operations<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened next? On 4 July, North Korea said it carried out its first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM). The Hwasong-14, it said, could hit “any part of the world” (US estimates said that this was unlikely)<\/span><\/p>\n

6 August: UN unanimously agrees to the banning of North Korean exports of coal, ore and other raw materials along with limiting investments in the country<\/span><\/p>\n

What happened next? On 3 September, North Korea said it had successfully detonated a hydrogen bomb – many times more powerful than an atomic bomb – that can be miniaturised and loaded on to a long-range missile<\/span><\/p>\n

Russia, which had earlier said further sanctions would be “useless” on North Korea, agreed to the resolution as “leaving nuclear tests without a firm reaction would be wrong”, said its UN ambassador Vassily Nebenzia.<\/span><\/p>\n

China’s foreign ministry said on Tuesday (link in Chinese) that North Korea had “ignored international opposition and once again conducted a nuclear test, severely violating UN Security Council resolutions.”<\/span><\/p>\n

It also repeated its call for a “peaceful resolution” instead of a military response, adding: “China will never allow the peninsula to descend into war and chaos.”<\/span><\/p>\n

Both Russia and China reiterated their proposal that the US and South Korea freeze all military drills – which anger North Korea – and asked for a halt in the deployment of the controversial anti-missile system Thaad, in exchange for Pyongyang’s cessation of its weapons programmes.<\/span><\/p>\n

Beijing believes Thaad, which employs a powerful radar, is a security threat to China and neighbouring countries.<\/span><\/p>\n

Ms Haley last week dismissed this proposal as “insulting”.<\/span><\/p>\n

The last round of United Nations sanctions in August banned exports including coal, costing North Korea an estimated $1bn – about a third of its entire export economy.<\/span><\/p>\n

A UN Security Council resolution bans North Korea from all nuclear and missile weapons development.<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:-\u00a0http:\/\/www.bbc.com\/news\/world-asia-41235157<\/span><\/p>\n

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