China lists goods North Korea can’t have
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CHINA’S Ministry of Commerce has released a list of goods banned for export to North Korea, saying they could be used to build weapons of mass destruction.
The list of goods or products that have both civilian and military use comes after the United Nations nuclear watchdog said North Korea appeared to have reopened a plant to produce plutonium from the spent fuel of a reactor central to its banned atomic weapons drive.
The ministry said the list was meant to comply with the requirements of a round of UN sanctions imposed in March in response to a North Korean nuclear test in January.
It adds to a much longer list of banned goods released in 2013 after North Korea carried out its third nuclear test that year.
The new list names dozens of items, including magnetic materials, high-strength metals, chemical fibers and laser-welding equipment. It also lists chemicals that could be used in producing “chemical warfare agents.”
Such items could be used in nuclear, biological or chemical weapons development, the ministry said.
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