The sanctions ambition the North Korean army's Strategic Rocket Force, as able-bodied as two banks and three shipment companies allegedly complex in accoutrements trade.
The sanctions bar American citizens or companies from agreeable in any affairs with the firms.
The North already faces sanctions from several added countries and the UN.
The Strategic Rocket Force is accused of assuming several missile tests endure year, while the shipment companies - affiliated to added already-sanctioned firms - are accused of alteration adulterous arms.
The US Treasury aswell blacklisted admiral of ahead accustomed North Korean Banks.
The sanctions benumb any US assets the blacklisted companies and individuals have. It is not bright how much, if any, they accept in the United States.North Korea threatens all-embracing accord and aegis by accretion its nuclear affairs and continuing its admeasurement of weapons of accumulation abolition and accepted weapons," said Adam Szubin, acting under-secretary for agitation and banking intelligence.
Five of the individuals added to the banish - two in Syria and two in Vietnam - are assembly of the Tanchon Commercial Bank, which is already on the US sanctions list. It performs banking activities for the Korea Mining and Development Trading Corporation, which is amenable for North Korea accoutrements exports.
The North's Foreign Barter Bank aswell had one representative, based in Russia, added to the sanctions list. The close itself was aswell already covered by US sanctions.
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