U.S. announces new sanctions on North Korea and Chinese entities

美, 개인 1명•기관 13곳•선박 20척 대북 제재…中기업 포함 The United States has imposed additional sanctions on North Korea... as well as Chinese firms with suspected business ties with the regime. This comes... just a day after naming North Korea a state sponsor of terror. Yu Joonhee reports. The U.S. Treasury Department says it's blacklisting one Chinese national,... 13 entities... and 20 shipping vessels... for helping Pyongyang bypass UN sanctions. In a statement Tuesday, Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said... the new measures were in line with Washington's efforts... to maximize economic pressure... and isolate the regime from external sources of trade and revenue. The sanctions will target transportation networks,... as well as individuals and trading firms with business ties to North Korea... to cut off funding for its nuclear and missile developments. The U.S. has already introduced a slew of new punitive measures against Pyongyang this year... which also target Chinese and Russian entities. According to the Treasury Department,... three Chinese trading companies... exported roughly six-hundred-50 million U.S. dollars in goods to North Korea... while importing 100 million dollars worth... over a recent four-and-a-half year period. These included vital commodities like coal and iron... as well as vehicles, machinery and other items... associated with North Korea's construction of nuclear reactors. The latest move comes... just one day after President Trump announced... the U.S. was reinstating North Korea... on its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The regime is now one of four countries in the world to be designated as such... joining the ranks of Iran, Sudan and Syria. The reclusive nation had been removed from that list... in 2008 under the previous George W. Bush administration... as part of a nuclear deal which ultimately collapsed. Yu Joonhee, Arirang News. Arirang News Facebook:   / arirangtvnews   ------------------------------------------------------------ [Subscribe Arirang Official YouTube] ARIRANG TV:    / arirang   ARIRANG RADIO:    / music180arirang   ARIRANG NEWS:    / arirangnews   ARIRANG K-POP:    / arirangworld   ARIRANG ISSUE:    / arirangtoday   ARIRANG CULTURE:    / arirangkorean   ------------------------------------------------------------ [Visit Arirang TV Official Pages] Facebook:   / arirangtv   Twitter:   / arirangworld   Instagram:   / arirangworld   Homepage: http://www.arirang.com ------------------------------------------------------------ [Arirang K-Pop] YouTube:    / arirangworld   Facebook:   / arirangkpop   Google+: http://plus.google.com/+arirangworld