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US Imposes More Sanctions On North Korea Despite Diplomatic “Breakthrough”

Editor’s Note: This is all too expected. Just when it seems peace is possible, the US “discovers” some new factor which drives the hostilities forward. Two things to note here. First, there is no reason anyone should trust the word of the US government in regard to discussions of chemical weapons (and all else for that matter). Second, say for the sake of conversation that the accusations are true, how absurdly hypocritical to impose economic sanctions, which almost entirely effect the civilian population, and by design, due to the claim that one man was killed at the behest of the North Korean leader. Such a disproportionate response speaks volumes, and it tells all watching that all the potential lives that could be lost due to future conflict are less important to the US than keeping North Korea in the dog house. It is also overtly hypocritical for the US to sit on its high horse casting down judgement when it has done far worse, and quite recently. The bottom line, this was likely being held in reserve for this exact occasion. Now the US can keep stoking the flames under the guise of false moral superiority. 

Barely 12 hours after a “breakthrough” report that North Korean leaders might be willing to shut down their nuclear program and surrender their existing nukes in exchange for assurances that the regime’s safety would be guaranteed, the State Department announced that it would impose yet another round of economic sanctions on the North – its second batch of sanctions within the span of two weeks, per Reuters.

 

The sanctions are being levied because the US has obtained “solid evidence” that North Korean leader Kim Jong Un ordered the assassination of his older half-brother, Kim Jong Nam, who was murdered in 2017 at an airport in Kuala Lampur when two young female assassins exposed him to a nerve agent, the US has determined.

 

State Department spokesperson Healther Nauert made the announcement in a press release.

“The United States determined under the Chemical and Biological Weapons Control and Warfare Elimination Act of 1991 (CBW Act) that the Government of North Korea used the chemical warfare agent VX to assassinate Kim Jong Nam, in the Kuala Lumpur airport,” Nauert said on Tuesday. These sanctions are in addition to the existing sanctions against targeting unlawful North Korean activities. The sanctions took effect upon this determination in the federal register on March 5, 2018. The United State sstrongly condemns the use of chemical weapons in carrying out assassinations. This public display of contempt against universal norms of chemical weapons use further demonstrates the reckless nature of North Korea and underscores that we cannot tolerate a North Korean WMD program.”

Pyongyang has repeatedly denied allegations that it was involved in the murder. Two of the assassins were caught by Malaysian police and convicted. When asked about the reports of a possible breakthrough in US-North Korea relations, President Trump sounded noncommital, repeatedly responding ‘”we’ll see what happens.”

Meanwhile, Vice President Mike Pence released a statement saying the US wouldn’t back down from its demands that the Korean peninsula be denuclearized.

Whichever direction talks with North Korea go, we will be firm in our resolve. The United States and our allies remain committed to applying maximum pressure on the Kim regime to end their nuclear program. All options are on the table and our posture toward the regime will not change until we see credible, verifiable, and concrete steps toward denuclearization.

 

Source: www.zerohedge.com

One Reply to “US Imposes More Sanctions On North Korea Despite Diplomatic “Breakthrough”

  1. how many thousand north korean men,women and children did america kill with Biological Weapons in the korean war- 1950-53? Harry S Truman the inhuman War Criminal President. frying 250,000 japanese civilians with Atomic Bombs wasn`t enough.

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