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The US State Department Special Forces Representative for North Korea opened a website reporting sanctions violations against North Korea and said it will provide rewards of up to $ 5 million. He also noted that China is still clearly in violation of its obligation to implement sanctions against North Korea, including at least 20,000 North Korean workers. Reporter Cho Eun-jung reports.
US State Department Deputy Special Forces Representative Alex Wong said on Monday that pressure on North Korea will continue.
[녹취:웡 대북특별부대표] “We have taken and will continue to take steps to keep up the pressure as we pursue productive diplomacy.”In a keynote address at a video seminar hosted today by the Institute for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS) in Washington, Vice President Wong said the United States has kept up the pressure and will continue to pursue productive diplomacy with North Korea.
He also explained that he opened a new website (dprkrewards.com) that can report information on sanctions violations against North Korea, offering rewards of up to $ 5 million.
▶ Visit the US Department of State’s ‘North Korea Sanctions Violation Report’ website.
The North Korean side, which was listed on ‘Compensation for Justice’, a website for reporting terrorism information by the State Ministry, was operated separately and independently, and the related explanations were considerably strengthened.
Vice President Wong said the scale of the trade in sanctions violation between China and North Korea is large and the reports will have a direct impact on this trade.
He also announced the addition of a sanctions list against North Korea.
[녹취:웡 대북특별부대표] “The United States will also continue to impose sanctions on any individual or entity that perpetrates sanction evasion, including individuals and entities within China’s jurisdictions.”Vice President Wong added that the United States will continue to impose sanctions on individuals and companies that circumvent sanctions on North Korea, including those under Chinese jurisdiction.
Meanwhile, he has repeatedly emphasized that the sanctions list has been increased in the past and will be added in the future.
Vice President Wong has revealed a number of specific violations, saying China has clearly violated its obligation to implement sanctions against North Korea.
At the end of last year, UN member states had to repatriate all North Korean workers, but China still retains at least 20,000 North Korean workers, and earlier this year it even took steps to make it easier to send North Korean workers to China.
He also said that the Chinese government is allowing Chinese companies to trade with North Korea with a variety of UN embargoes, including fish products, textiles, iron, steel, industrial machinery, vehicles, sand and gravel.
Mr. Wong added that Chinese companies violate UN resolutions, participate in joint ventures with North Korean companies and even continue to negotiate with North Korean military companies included in the UN sanctions list.
In particular, he noted that the most prominent area in China’s failure to implement sanctions on North Korea is the North Korean arms trade.
[녹취:웡 대북특별부대표] “The Democratic People’s Republic of Korea still has dark paths to get imports for its weapons programs. The DPRK cannot do it without intermediaries. “North Korea still maintains a network of imports and acquisitions of weapons programs in the dark, and many of the bank accounts and the “money laundering agents” involved are in China.
Mr. Wong estimates that the number of North Korean illegal arms traffickers in China is at least 24, noting that China should have expelled them several years ago.
In addition, the United States saw ships transporting banned coal or other authorized goods from North Korea to China 555 times in 2020, and captured ships suspected of being oil smugglers off the coast of China 32 times and 155 times. He said he had learned that a barge of Chinese shipments across the country went to North Korea and loaded coal.
Vice President Wong said China voted in favor of the UN sanctions resolution against North Korea in 2006, 2009, 2013, 2016 and 2017, and urged China to adopt a responsible attitude.
China, in particular, says it has enough resources to implement UN sanctions because it has invested heavily in surveillance technology around its naval and territorial waters.
[녹취:웡 대북특별부대표] “Indeed, as the president has said, we look forward to the day when we can lift all sanctions and work together to achieve a brighter future for lasting peace for the North Korean people, including a strong and growing North Korean economy.” .Vice President Wong said, as President Trump mentioned earlier, that he hopes the United States will one day lift all sanctions against North Korea and work together for a strong economy, lasting peace and a brighter future.
But he said strong, verifiable, and undeniable denuclearization measures must be taken to do this.
He also pointed out that the greatest obstacle to North Korea’s economic development is the nuclear, chemical and biological weapons of the North Korean regime, which if it continues to threaten the international community it is impossible to establish economic relations with each country. I did.
Vice President Wong emphasized that nuclear weapons are neither swords nor shields in North Korea, but a “millstone hanging around the neck.”
This is the news from VOA, Eunjung Jo.
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