The government is considering blacklisting companies based in China or other countries known to be facilitating transactions with North Korea.
In the face of North Korea’s unyielding ballistic missile and nuclear arms development efforts, Japan hopes to take a more efficient approach to cutting off the country’s financial resources by targeting its biggest gateways of foreign income, a government official said Monday.
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