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RSS FeedsCoalition threatens funding cuts, sanctions to `grave threat` North Korea
(The Star Movies)

 
 

17 january 2018 07:44:16

 
Coalition threatens funding cuts, sanctions to `grave threat` North Korea
(The Star Movies)
 


VANCOUVER—Canada, the United States and a coalition of countries are urging a renewed global effort to cut off funding and resources to North Korea, condemned as a “grave and imminent threat,” while warning the regime will face more punishing measures unless it changes course.Countries gathered for a daylong strategy session here on the North Korean crisis committed to better enforcement of existing sanctions, including new efforts to curb maritime smuggling of illegal goods that have allowed the isolated regime to skirt sanctions.And top diplomats, who warned against North Korea’s “charm offensive, laid out a blunt warning to dictator Kim Jong Un to abandon his nuclear weapons ambitions or face further punitive action.“We cannot stand by and let this threat persist. At stake are the safety and security of all people of the world,” Foreign Affairs Minister Chrystia Freeland said in her opening remarks.Freeland said that despite recent encouraging talks between North and South Korea, no “true progress” can be made until North Korea “commits to changing course and verifiably and irreversibly abandoning all its weapons of mass destruction.”After a day of closed-door talks on sanctions, nuclear proliferation and diplomacy, progress was uncertain. Two big actors — China and Russia — had been left out of the deliberations and a wish list of further measures it’s hoped will bring a diplomatic end to the crisis.Those include improved enforcement of sanctions, maritime interdictions of illegal shipments to North Korea, including unspecified measures to halt ship-to-ship transfers done to skirt inspections, and diplomatic pressure on nations that “lack the political will to implement sanctions.”“We must increase the cost of the regime’s behaviour to the point that North Korea comes to the table for credible negotiations,” said U.S. Secretary of State Rex Tille ...


 
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