Japan’s sanctions against North Korea are set to expire on April 13, but a cabinet meeting today resolved to extend them for two years due to the lack of concrete progress on North Korea’s nuclear weapons, missile launches and abductions of Japanese nationals.
The Japan Broadcasting Association (NHK) reports that Japan has been imposing separate sanctions on North Korea since 2006, including a ban on import and export trade with North Korea and a ban on North Korean ships docking at Japanese ports, in response to North Korea’s nuclear weapons tests and ballistic missile launches, and the sanctions were scheduled to expire on April 13 this year.
But North Korea launched two ballistic missiles again in March this year, nuclear weapons and the abduction of Japanese people are no concrete progress, the Japanese Cabinet meeting today resolved to extend the sanctions against North Korea for two years.
The report pointed out that Prime Minister Kan and U.S. President Joe Biden will hold a leadership meeting in Washington, D.C., on the 16th, and the North Korea issue will be one of the main topics, and Japan will cooperate with the U.S. in the hope of solving the above-mentioned problems.
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