Off the wire
• President Xi visits China's national news outlets  • Rolls-Royce to set up engine joint venture in S. China  • Chinese brand passenger vehicles sales gain record market share in January  • Five kidnapped ICRC staff released in Afghanistan  • ADB to fund 1.5 bln USD for Bangladesh-Myanmar railway network  • 1st LD-Writethru: Heavyweights drag down Chinese shares Friday  • Sri Lanka's opposition strongly opposes new deal with India  • Urgent: At least 19 killed in twin suicide attacks in Cameroon  • Spotlight: European, U.S. observers call for seizing opportunities from China's economic development  • Asia's largest desert reservoir to be expanded  
You are here: 　 Home

Japanese gov't approves unilateral sanctions on DPRK

Xinhua, February 19, 2016 Adjust font size:

The Japanese government on Friday approved its new sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) over its recent rocket launch and nuclear bomb test.

The new sanctions include banning entering of ships from third countries that have visited ports in the DPRK into Japan and banning remittances to the DPRK in principle, according to local reports.

The DPRK earlier this month launched a long-range rocket, saying it carried an earth observation satellite, but Japan and the U.S., among other nations, believed the launch was a test of a long-range ballistic missile.

It is the first time since December 2012 that the DPRK has conducted such a test. The DPRK is banned from test-firing any rockets based on a ballistic missile technology under UN Security Council resolutions.

The DPRK also tested its first hydrogen nuclear bomb last month which was also a violation against related UN resolution and was criticized by the international community.

Japan lifted parts of its unilateral sanctions against the DPRK in 2014 since the DPRK agreed to restart investigations on some of Japanese nationals it abducted in the 1970s and 1980s.

Reports said that the DPRK has ended investigation into Japanese abductees in the country in response to Japan's expanded sanctions. Endit