What are the new rounds of sanctions announced by the United States against North Korea?

On September 26, local time, the U.S. government announced a new round of sanctions against North Korea, which will sanction 8 North Korean banks and more than 20 financial practitioners, most of whom will be sanctioned. Be a representative of North Korean banks around the world.

The United Nations Security Council unanimously adopted Resolution 2375 on the 11th, deciding to impose new sanctions on North Korea. The resolution also reiterated the maintenance of peace and stability on the Korean Peninsula and Northeast Asia, and called for peaceful settlement of issues through diplomacy and political means. According to this resolution, the international community will reduce oil supplies to North Korea, ban North Korean textile exports, and prohibit North Korean overseas workers from remitting domestic remittances, etc., in order to curb its nuclear weapons and missile programs to the greatest extent. In response to North Korea's sixth nuclear test on September 3, the United States circulated a draft resolution on sanctions against North Korea to members of the Security Council the next day for discussion by the 15 member states of the Security Council. This is the ninth time since 2006 that the United Nations Security Council has adopted sanctions resolutions targeting North Korea's nuclear and missile programs.

Sent an open letter to political parties and parliaments of many countries calling for the establishment of an anti-American front

North Korea published letters sent to political parties and parliaments of many countries on the 25th, one of which condemned U.S. President Trump The risk of nuclear war is escalating due to comments made in his first speech to the United Nations last week. It was reported on September 25 that the Central Committee of the Workers’ Party of Korea and the Foreign Affairs Committee of the Supreme People’s Assembly of North Korea respectively sent open letters to foreign fraternal organizations. In the letter, the Central Committee of the Workers' Party of Korea called on foreign political parties to "cherish independence, justice and peace, unite as one, take joint actions, form a united front, and thwart the reckless actions of the United States to drag the world into a nuclear disaster."

It was reported on September 25 that the Foreign Affairs Committee of North Korea’s Supreme People’s Assembly criticized Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” North Korea in an open letter as an “intolerable insult” to the North Korean people.

It was learned on the 24th that North Korea held informal consultations with the United States in mid-January last year, shortly after it forcibly carried out its fourth nuclear test, demanding that the United States and North Korea establish nuclear weapons that could cause mutual destruction through the possession of nuclear weapons. to exert deterrence through the "mutually assured destruction" strategy and seek reciprocity in relations. According to analysis, this is North Korea's attempt to test the United States' ideas in order to have the international community officially recognize it as a nuclear-weapon state. The United States responded that it could not accept the "mutually assured destruction" strategy under any circumstances. It is said that a former senior U.S. government official familiar with the content of the consultation disclosed the news and explained it to the governments of Japan and South Korea after the consultation.

According to the former senior official, the negotiations started in the form of a dinner meeting in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. During the consultation, five people from each country were present from the United States and North Korea. The American members included officials who had served as ambassadors, senior think tank officials, and experts on North Korea. In addition to Ci Chengnan, the North Korean side also included researchers on North Korea-US relations. Ci Cheng, North Korea’s Permanent Representative to the United Nations, Men also attended the consultation. North Korea has stated that it will continue its nuclear development in the future, and also pointed out that by possessing nuclear combat capabilities that can retaliate even if it is attacked by nuclear weapons preemptively, it can prevent the outbreak of a nuclear war between the United States and North Korea. The United States emphasizes that the denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula is indispensable for peace and stability in Asia. It also points out that the gap in nuclear capabilities between the United States and North Korea is too large, making it impossible to build a "mutually assured destruction" strategy similar to the one between the United States and the Soviet Union during the Cold War.

Both countries should remain calm and not allow conflicts to escalate further.