The US president extended North Korean sanctions for another year
On June 17, US President Donald Trump extended current sanctions to North Korea for another year, citing actions that Washington described as an "unusual threat" from Pyongyang.
In a statement sent to
Congress, President Trump emphasized that he wants to maintain a "national
emergency involving North Korea" that was first announced on June 26,
2008, through Ordinance 13466.
The order, which was further extended under
Trump and its predecessors, called for sanctions on North Korea for its nuclear
program and ballistic missiles.
In a letter to Congress,
Mr. Trump described Pyongyang's actions and policies, particularly its nuclear
and missile programs, destabilizing the Korean Peninsula and endangering it to
the US Armed Forces, allies and trade partners in the region.
By law, a national
emergency on North Korea will automatically end if the President does not
extend it 90 days before the situation is triggered.
The U.S. extension of North
Korean sanctions took place at a time of heightened tension on the Korean
Peninsula in connection with Pyongyang's explosion of joint liaison offices
between the two regions, accusing Seoul of not ending the resolution of the
defamation. North Korea at the border area between the two countries -
something that both sides agreed to since 2008.
According to analysts,
North Korea is seeking to push concessions from the United States when the two
sides will eventually sit at the negotiating table on the issue of
denuclearization.
Negotiations over a nuclear
issue between the United States and North Korea have stalled since the second
summit between leaders of the two countries took place in February 2019 because
of disagreements between the two sides on the non-nuclear issue personalization
and the US easing sanctions on North Korea.
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