Centrum Stosunków Międzynarodowych - 1 December 2016: U.N. Security Council Unanimously imposes new sanction on North Korea, UN

In response to the fifth and largest nuclear test by North Korea to date, the UN Security Council has voted to further tighten sanctions. The motion was unanimously approved after months of diplomatic wrangling over how best to respond to the latest nuclear test in September and the regimes repeated defiance of international sanctions and diplomatic pressure. The new sanctions target North Korea’s hard currency reserves by placing a cap on coal exports, cutting them by at least 62%. The sanctions also ban the exports of non-ferrous metals and sanction a further 11 government officials, as well as 10 entities linked to the country’s nuclear weapons program.

The sanctions also include a host of other measures to crack down on the country’s access to the international banking system, and the export of statues (which have earned the nation’s hard currency mostly through sales to African countries).