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Japan announces new sanctions against North Korea
Japan announced yesterday it would impose new sanctions on North Korea over this week?s reported underground nuclear blast, while the reclusive communist state held out the threat of more tests.
The North?s KCNA news agency, renowned for blustering anti-US rhetoric, said pressure from Washington to rein in its nuclear programme would be tantamount to a declaration of war. Japan?s Chief Cabinet Secretary Yasuhisa Shiozaki said new sanctions, adding to measures imposed after Pyongyang test-fired missiles in July, included barring all North Korean ships from Japanese ports and banning imports from the country. The decision, agreed by the National Security Council, would be formally approved by cabinet tomorrow.
Tokyo has also been pressing for UN sanctions against Pyongyang, and the Security Council is likely to make a decision by tomorrow. A broad consensus appears to be building but some reservations have been expressed by China and Russia, North Korea?s largest trading partners.
In the North Korean capital, the country?s No. 2 leader said whether Pyongyang conducted more tests depended on Washington. ?The issue of future nuclear tests is linked to US policy toward our country, if the United States continues to take a hostile attitude and apply pressure on us in various forms, we will have no choice but to take physical steps to deal with that,? he said. Ignoring UN warnings, North Korea announced on Monday that it had conducted its first-ever nuclear test. It said a US ?threat of nuclear war and sanctions? forced its hand.
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