{"id":415647,"date":"2017-09-07T07:45:16","date_gmt":"2017-09-07T07:45:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ghana-mma.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us-seeks-freeze-on-kim-jong-uns-assets\/"},"modified":"2017-09-07T07:45:16","modified_gmt":"2017-09-07T07:45:16","slug":"us-seeks-freeze-on-kim-jong-uns-assets","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2017\/09\/07\/us-seeks-freeze-on-kim-jong-uns-assets\/","title":{"rendered":"US seeks\u00a0 freeze on Kim Jong-un\u2019s assets"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div> <\/aside>\n<p>The US has proposed a range of new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s assets.<\/p>\n<p>The draft resolution circulated to the Security Council members comes after North Korea\u2019s sixth nuclear test and repeated missile launches.<\/p>\n<p>Pyongyang also claims to have\u00a0<a style=\"font-style: inherit;\" href=\"http:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/news\/world-asia-41139445\">developed a hydrogen bomb\u00a0and continues to threaten to strike the US.<\/p>\n<p>China and Russia are both expected to oppose further sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>North Korea is already under highly restrictive sanctions imposed by the UN that are intended to force the leadership to curtail its weapons programmes.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>In August,\u00a0a new round of sanctions\u00a0banned exports including coal, costing North Korea an estimated $1bn (\u00a3767m) \u2013 about a third of its entire export economy.<\/p>\n<p>But some trade avenues remain open to it.<\/p>\n<p>The draft US proposal calls for a total ban on supplying a range of oil products to North Korea and a ban on its textile export industry.<\/p>\n<p>It also suggests freezing the assets of Mr Kim and the North Korean government, as well as banning him and other senior officials from travelling.<\/p>\n<p>North Korean labourers would also be banned from working abroad.<\/p>\n<p>Remittances from foreign earnings and textile exports are two of the most important remaining sources of income for North Korea.<\/p>\n<p>But the US is expected to face opposition from China and Russia, which both supply oil to North Korea and wield vetoes at the Security Council.<\/p>\n<p>Russian President\u00a0Vladimir Putin has argued that\u00a0the amount of oil his country exports to North Korea \u2013 some 40,000 tonnes \u2013 is negligible.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt is not worth giving in to emotions and driving North Korea into a corner,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p>China is both North Korea\u2019s and the US\u2019 biggest trade partner, and has supported recent sanctions against it.<\/p>\n<p>But both China and Russia have been pushing for an alternative solution.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<a style=\"display:none\" rel=\"follow\" href=\"http:\/\/megatheme.ir\/\" title=\"\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633\">\u0642\u0627\u0644\u0628 \u0648\u0631\u062f\u067e\u0631\u0633<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US has proposed a range of new United Nations sanctions against North Korea, including an oil ban and a freeze on leader Kim Jong-un\u2019s assets. 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