{"id":32918,"date":"2018-10-29T17:28:38","date_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:58:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.forumias.com\/?p=32918"},"modified":"2018-10-29T17:28:38","modified_gmt":"2018-10-29T11:58:38","slug":"new-sanctions-are-an-act-of-war","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-sanctions-are-an-act-of-war\/","title":{"rendered":"New sanctions are an act of war\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/news\/international\/un-imposes-new-sanctions-on-n-korea\/article22267527.ece\">New sanctions are an act of war<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Context <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Sanctions on N Korea<\/p>\n<p><strong>What has happened?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.thehindu.com\/tag\/369-244\/north-korea\/?utm=bodytag\">North Korea<\/a>on Friday for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from workers abroad<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>What does the ban entail?<\/strong><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The UN resolution seeks to ban nearly 90% of refined petroleum exports to North Korea by capping them at 500,000 barrels a year and, in a last-minute change, demands the repatriation of North Koreans working abroad within 24 months, instead of 12 months as first proposed<\/li>\n<li>It also caps crude oil supplies to North Korea at 4 million barrels a year and commits the Council to further reductions if it were to conduct another nuclear test or launch another ICBM<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Backdrop<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>North Korea on November 29 said it successfully tested a new ICBM that put the U.S. mainland within range of its nuclear weapons<\/p>\n<p><strong>Reaction of N Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The North Korean mission to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment<strong>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Reaction of S Korea<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>South Korea welcomed the sanctions and called on North Korea to \u201cimmediately cease reckless provocations, and take the path of dialogue for denuclearisation&#8221;<strong><u>\u00a0<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>New sanctions are an act of war\u00a0 Context Sanctions on N Korea What has happened? The UN Security Council unanimously imposed new sanctions on\u00a0North Koreaon Friday for its recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test, seeking to limit its access to refined petroleum products and crude oil and its earnings from workers abroad\u00a0 What does the&hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/new-sanctions-are-an-act-of-war\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">New sanctions are an act of war\u00a0<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":61,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[555],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-32918","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-test-1","entry"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","views":{"total":0,"cached_at":"","cached_date":1704500944},"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/61"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=32918"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/32918\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=32918"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=32918"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/forumias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=32918"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}