UN members submit sanctions implementation plans

A number of UN member states have submitted their action plans for implementing the latest UNSC resolution on North Korea.
More unilateral measures by individual countries are beginning to take shape, too.
Kwon Soa has the latest.
South Korea, the U.S., the UK, Japan and Russia are among the roughly twenty countries that have submitted implementation plans for UN Security Council Resolution 2270,... imposed on North Korea,...
...for its nuclear and missile tests earlier this year.
The 193 UN member states were to submit reports on how they would follow through with the toughest ever sanctions on Pyongyang,... within 90 days of the resolution's adoption.
South Korea's foreign ministry revealed its own action plan and the measures taken so far,... earlier this week,... which include its suspension of the inter-Korean Kaesong industrial complex.
China -- which, as North Korea's closest ally, plays a major role in how effective the UN sanctions will actually be -- has not yet submitted its plan.


"Although the majority of UN members have not submitted sanctions implementation reports yet,... officials say,... more are expected to do so in the near future,... as delays have been common in the past."

Meanwhile, other individual sanctions are taking shape, too,... with the EU having recently adopted financial restrictions said to include a ban on transactions with North Korean institutions amounting to more than 15-thousand euros.
In line with this,... the UK Treasury designated North Korea as a "primary money laundering concern" on Thursday, after the U.S. made the same designation the day before.
Kwon Soa, Arirang News.