Seoul unveils sanctions in opposition to 4 people and 5 entities following newest missile launches.
South Korea has introduced new sanctions focusing on North Korea’s weapons applications following Pyongyang’s newest missile launches.
The measures goal 4 people and 5 entities, together with a South African nationwide and two Singaporean delivery companies, linked to North Korea’s growth of nuclear weapons and missiles, South Korea’s international ministry stated on Monday.
The announcement got here after North Korea fired two short-range ballistic missiles from its east coasttwo days after it test-fired an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM).
South Korea and the US on Sunday staged joint air drills involving B-1B bombers in response to Pyongyang’s ICBM launch.
South Korea, the US and the United Nations condemned North Korea’s newest missile launches as unlawful provocations.
Andrei Lankov, a North Korea scholar and professor at Kookmin College in Seoul, stated additional sanctions are unlikely to halt North Korea’s growth of nuclear weapons and ballistic missiles.
“North Koreans are decided to develop ICBMs able to hitting the US, partly as a deterrent, partly as a technique to blackmail the US from blackmailing South Korea if and when the North Koreans determine it is time to assault North Korea,” Lankov informed Al Jazeera.
“If you happen to ask me what might be carried out, my brief reply is nothing,” added Lankov.
South Korean President Yoon Suk-yeol’s administration earlier this month sanctioned 4 North Korean people and 7 entities over cyberattacks believed linked to the nation’s weapons programmes, in Seoul’s first such measures focusing on Pyongyang’s hacking actions.
In December, Seoul joined the US and Japan in asserting sanctions over Pyongyang’s repeated missile checks, figuring out eight people and 7 establishments it stated had been related with North Korea’s missile and nuclear weapons growth programme.
South Korea and North Korea have a tense relationship stemming from the division of the Korean Peninsula into the communist North and capitalist, pro-US South within the aftermath of World Conflict II.
The 2 Koreas fought a bloody warfare from 1950-1953 that led to an armistice that left the 2 sides technically in a state of warfare to this present day.
