UNSC on 30th Nov 2016 voted to tighten sanctions on North Korea.This was after North Korea carried out the country’s fifth and largest nuclear test.
Council unanimously approved the sanctions resolution following months of diplomatic arguments over how to respond to N. Korea’s nuclear test.
North Korea conducted this nuclear test in Sept 2016.
DPRK/Democratic People’s Republic of Korea has been under UN sanctions since 2006 over nuclear and ballistic missile tests.
The fresh sanctions target the country’s hard currency revenue by placing a cap on coal exports, cutting them by at least 62 percent.
The sanction will cut down USD 800 million per year the hard currency that they country has to fund its prohibited weapons programs.
The prohibited weapons programs constitute a full 25 percent of North Korea’s entire export revenues.
Sanctions will also ban the country’s exports of non-ferrous metals and sanction 11 government officials as well as 10 entities linked to the country’s nuclear weapons program.
They also include an array of other measures for cracking down on DPRK’s access to the international banking system and on its export.
North Korea- Official Name: Democratic People’s Republic of Korea
- Location: East Asia, in the northern part of the Korean Peninsula.
- Pyongyang is its capital and its largest city.
- Bordering nations: China, South Korea
- Official language: Korean
- Official script: Choson'gul
- Government: Totalitarian
- Supreme Leader/ Chairman of the Assembly Presidium: Kim Jong-un
