NEW YORK (Kyodo) Japan and the United States submitted to a U.N. sanctions committee Wednesday lists of entities whose assets they want frozen due to suspected activities related to North Korea's nuclear weapons and missile programs, the panel's chairman said.
The move is in line with a nonbinding presidential statement the U.N. Security Council adopted Monday following North Korea's April 5 rocket launch.
The statement condemned the launch as a violation of Resolution 1718, which bans North Korea from all missile activity, and requested the Security Council sanctions committee established to deal with the resolution to list by April 24 additional goods and entities subject to sanctions on Pyongyang.