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2010-8-31 20:08
The Obama administration outlined new financial sanctions on North Korea aimed at further choking off Pyongyang's arms trade and illicit businesses funding dictator Kim Jong Il's government.
The U.S. specifically targeted a secretive unit of Pyongyang's ruling Korean Workers' Party, known as Office 39, which American officials believe serves as a private slush fund for Mr. Kim. Washington also blacklisted nearly a dozen North Korean individuals and entities alleged to be overseeing Pyongyang's development of conventional arms and weapons of mass destruction, as well as their sales to third countries. Among those designated are the Second Economic Committee of the Workers' Party and Yun Ho-jin, Pyongyang's onetime ambassador to the United Nations' nuclear watchdog, the International Atomic Energy Agency. The U.S. also named to its sanctions list two top officials from Pyongyang's General Bureau of Atomic Energy, Ri Je-son and Ri Hong-sop. 'When it comes to focusing on illicit activity, we have seen that the world reacts to this kind of thing very, very positively,' said Stuart Levey, the Treasury Department's undersecretary for terrorism and financial intelligence. 'We believe that this sort of program can have a very powerful impact.' The new U.S. measures freeze any assets of the designated persons or entities inside the U.S. and bars American companies from conducting business with the listed North Koreans. Mr. Levey also said that any foreign entities conducting business with the sanctioned North Koreans could also face U.S. penalties. 'We are prepared to engage North Korea. But we need to see a change in North Korean behavior first,' said Robert Einhorn, the State Department's point man on North Korea and Iran sanctions. U.S. officials said the targeting of Office 39 is among the most direct assaults on Kim Jong Il's finances to date and illustrates Washington's support for the North Korean people. Office 39 has been directly involved in procuring luxury goods for Mr. Kim and Pyongyang's political elite, even as many North Koreans face starvation. Office 39 was blacklisted under a new executive order signed by President Barack Obama on Monday that specifically seeks to end North Korea's ability to raise hard currency through illicit activities like drug smuggling and counterfeit $100 bills. The Treasury said Office 39 was directly involved in a 2009 scheme to illegally export into North Korea two luxury yachts valued at $15 million for Kim Jong Il. 巴马政府列出了新的对朝经济制裁举措,意在进一步抑制朝鲜的军火贸易以及为金正日政府提供资金来源的违禁商业活动。
美国还特意将目标对准了执政的朝鲜劳动党下属的39号办公室,美国官员认为这个秘密机构充当着金正日私人行贿基金的角色。 华盛顿还将十余个朝鲜个人和实体列入黑名单,他们被指负责平壤的常规武器和大规模杀伤性武器研发,并负责朝鲜将这些武器出售给其他国家的工作。 进入黑名单的包括劳动党第二经济委员会和曾任朝鲜驻国际原子能机构(International Atomic Energy Agency)代表的尹浩镇(Yun Ho-jin)。美国还将朝鲜原子能总局(General Bureau of Atomic Energy)的两名高官列入了制裁名单,他们是李济善(Ri Je-son)和李洪燮(Ri Hong-sop)。 美国财政部负责恐怖主义和经济情报的副部长列维(Stuart Levey)表示,说到对违禁活动的重点关注时,我们发现国际上对这类事情的反应非常、非常积极。他说,我们认为对违禁活动的这类制裁行动能够产生十分重大的影响。 美国的新举措规定,对于被列入上述黑名单的个人和实体,其在美国的所有财产将予以冻结,规定还禁止美国公司与名单中的朝鲜个人和实体做生意。列维还说,任何与受到制裁的朝鲜个人和实体做生意的外国机构也将面临美国的惩罚。 美国国务院具体负责对朝鲜和伊朗实施制裁的埃因霍恩(Robert Einhorn)说,我们已准备好与朝鲜打交道,但我们需要首先看到朝鲜行为的变化。 美国官员说,将目标对准39号办公室是迄今为止对金正日在财务方面进行的最直接打击之一,也表现了华盛顿对朝鲜人民的支持。39号办公室直接从事为金正日和朝鲜政治精英们采购奢侈品的活动,而与此同时许多朝鲜人正遭受着饥荒。 美国总统奥巴马周一签署的新总统令将39号办公室列入了黑名单,这份命令的明确目的就是禁止朝鲜通过走私毒品、印制百元面值美元假钞等非法活动来筹集硬通货。美国财政部说,39号办公室直接参与了2009年向朝鲜非法出口两艘豪华游艇供金正日使用的计划,这两艘游艇的估价为1,500万美元。 |
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