World ‘united against reckless acts of North Korea’, claims Johnson
FOREIGN SECRETARY Boris Johnson says the world is “united against the illegal and reckless acts by the North Korean regime” after the United Nations Security Council unanimously approved tough new sanctions.
The resolution bans all textile exports and prohibits all countries from authorising new work permits for North Korean workers – two key sources of hard currency.
It also bans North Korea from importing all natural gas liquids and condensates.
Mr Johnson said the new measures were “the most stringent UN sanctions regime placed on any nation in the 21st century”.
He said: “The international community has shown it is united against the illegal and reckless acts by the North Korean regime.
“This resolution will curtail gas, petrol and oil imports. It will ban all textile exports, taking hundreds of million dollars from the export revenues that the North Korean regime uses to fund its illegal nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.
“And it will end the exploitation of DPRK labourers abroad.”
The Foreign Secretary added: “The North Korean regime bears full responsibility for the measures that the UN Security Council has enacted today.
“It is their continued, illegal and aggressive actions that have brought us to this point, and it is North Korea that must change its course.”
The resolution does not impose an oil import ban or international asset-freeze on the government and leader Kim Jong Un that the Trump administration had wanted.