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May 18, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related items but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on...
May 07, 2013
BEIJING--Bank of China Ltd. has shut the account of North Korea's main foreign exchange bank, which was hit with U.S. sanctions in March after Washington accused it of helping...
April 27, 2013
TEHRAN, Iran--Iranian users of Samsung mobile applications said April 25 that the company had notified them that they will no longer have access to the company's online store...
March 21, 2013
DANDONG, China--The Chinese government has ordered a major Chinese bank to freeze some remittances to North Korea from Dandong, a cross-border trading city.
March 09, 2013
The United Nations Security Council on March 7 unanimously adopted a resolution to impose additional economic sanctions against North Korea for its third nuclear test last...
March 05, 2013
UNITED NATIONS--The United States and China have struck a tentative deal on a draft U.N. Security Council sanctions resolution that would punish North Korea for its third...
March 02, 2013
A Chinese businessman indicted in the United States over sales of missile parts to Iran is still making millions of dollars from the trade, say security officials who monitor...
February 16, 2013
SEOUL/UNITED NATIONS--Kim Kwang-jin says that when he worked for North Korea's state insurance company in Singapore in 2003, he stuffed $20 million into two suitcases one day...
February 13, 2013
Prime Minister Shinzo Abe called North Korea's latest nuclear test "a grave threat to Japan's national security" and said his government will respond by imposing new sanctions...
January 26, 2013
SEOUL--North Korea threatened to attack rival South Korea if Seoul joined a new round of tightened U.N. sanctions, as Washington unveiled more of its own economic restrictions...
January 21, 2013
BEIJING--China said on Jan. 21 that the United Nations Security Council needed to pass a cautious resolution on North Korea's December rocket launch, saying that was the way to ...
January 13, 2013
Pyongyang is eager to hold talks with the Japanese administration of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe, who made a name for himself by taking a tough stance against North Korea, a U.S. ...
November 30, 2012
Dozens of countries meeting Nov. 30 to discuss sanctions on the government of Syrian President Bashar Assad condemned the deteriorating humanitarian situation there but also...
October 14, 2012
NEW DELHI--India's HMEL, part-owned by steel tycoon Lakshmi Mittal, has emerged as a new oil client of sanctions-hit Iran, potentially complicating New Delhi's bid for a...
September 06, 2012
Increasing stress of late has worsened the chronic hypertension of Vafaee, a 45-year-old trade firm employee in eastern Tehran.
June 30, 2012
UNITED NATIONS--After more than a month's delay due to Chinese objections, the United Nations on June 29 published a report on North Korea that says a panel of independent...
June 29, 2012
WASHINGTON -- The Obama administration on June 28 cleared China and Singapore from possible U.S. economic penalties, citing their sharp cuts in imports of Iranian oil, as an...
June 15, 2012
Japan's lower house passed a bill on June 15 to provide government guarantees on insurance for Iranian crude cargoes, a key step towards it becoming the first of Iran's big...
June 14, 2012
It has been revealed that a Chinese company secretly exported four large special-purpose military vehicles to North Korea last year that are designed to transport and launch...
June 12, 2012
BEIJING--Chinese refiner Sinopec has turned down offers of bargain Iranian crude and will cut imports by up to a fifth this year, a senior Chinese oil executive said, insisting ...