UN lists new sanctions, bans for DPRK

UNITED NATIONS, July 16 (Xinhua) -- The United Nations listed for new sanctions on Thursday five individuals and five entities believed to be involved in nuclear or ballistic missile development for the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK).

The Security Council sanctions committee mandated to list the targets, and also announced a ban on the shipment of two sensitive goods to or from the East Asian country.

New sanctions were voted against the DPRK on June 12, following a second nuclear test on May 25. Sanctions were imposed after Pyongyang's initial nuclear test in October 2006. The original measure included a ban on ballistic missile tests by the DPRK.

"The committee has decided today (Thursday) to designate the following five entities for assets freeze," said Turkey's Fazli Corman, chairman of the Council panel. "These entities are linked to the DPRK's nuclear and/or missile programs."

Lister were, the DPRK's General Bureau of Atomic Energy, Namchongang Trading Corp., Korea Hyoksin trading Corp., Korean Tangun Trading Corp., and Hong Kong Electronics, identified as "owned or controlled to act on or in behalf of Tanchon Commercial Bank," but located on Kish Island, Iran. The company was accused of having transferred "millions of dollars of (nuclear) proliferation-related funds ... from Iran to the DPRK."

"The committee agreed to continue working to identify subsidiaries of designated entities which are also covered by the relevant measures," Corman said.

The individuals named were the director of the GBAE, Ri Je Son,a director of the nuclear program in the agency, Hwang Sok Hwa; the former director on the Yongbyon Nuclear Research Center, Ri Hong Sop; the directors of two trading companies, Yun Ho Jin, of Namchongang and Han Yu Ro of Korea Ryongaksan Trading Corp., involved in the DPRK's missile program.

The goods banned are electrical discharge machining graphite and para-aramid fiber, Kevlar or Kevlar-like filament and tape.