Japan decides new sanctions on DPRK

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Source: CCTV.com | 04-10-2009 14:26

Japan has decided to extend economic sanctions on the DPRK by a year in response to Sunday's rocket launch. These include a ban on imports and tighter oversight of fund transfers.

Japanese Prime Minister Taro Aso. Japan decided to tighten a watch on money flows to DPRK in a bid to punish the communist regime for its rocket launch, a top official said. (AFP/Toru Yamanaka)

The additional sanctions lower the cap on remittances that must be reported to Tokyo. The amount has fallen from more than 30 million yen to more than 10 million.

For travelers to the DPRK, it's gone from more than 1 million to more than 300,000 yen.

Pyongyang says it had put a satellite into orbit but Tokyo, Seoul and Washington consider the launch a disguised test of a long-range missile designed to carry a warhead as far as Alaska.

The US military has said no object entered orbit. Japanese Foreign Minister Hirofumi Nakasone earlier said he and US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had agreed in a telephone meeting to work together to seek a new UN Security Council resolution against the DPRK.

Editor:Zhang Pengfei