Posted by Matt in April 12th, 2007 |
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Financial sanctions have a big place in a tool-box designed to thwart the proliferators of Pyongyang and Tehran.
To hawkish critics of Mr Bush’s readiness to negotiate with both North Korea and Iran (if only the latter would suspend its uranium and plutonium work as the UN Security Council has demanded) on nuclear matters, these setbacks [...]
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Posted by Matt in March 27th, 2007 |
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(BEIJING) — A senior U.S. Treasury Department official held talks in China on Monday as part of efforts to untangle a dispute over North Korean funds frozen in a Macau bank that led to a breakdown in talks over Pyongyang’s nuclear program.
Daniel Glaser, deputy assistant secretary for terrorist financing and financial crimes, met officials from [...]
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