The sanctions named three entities as well as 10 North Korean government officials, including individuals working in Iran, Syria, China, Russia and Namibia, according to the Treasury Department.
It was not immediately clear what relationship the three entities, which were already under sanction for their links to Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, had to the Sony hacking, although Washington said the Reconnaissance General Bureau, the military intelligence service, ran the North's cyber operations.
The 10 named individuals were not part of the North's top leadership and were linked to the companies that have already been sanctioned.
Pyongyang has been sanctioned by the United States since the 1950s and those measures have been tightened in the wake of the country's three nuclear weapons tests.
[buenosairesherald.com]
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US House Foreign Committee Chairman Calls for Harsher North Korea Sanctions ...
ReplyDeleteThe United States should impose additional financial sanctions on third-party, non-US entities that deal with officials and entities of North Korea that Washington deems responsible for a recent cyber-attack on Sony Pictures Entertainment, Chairman of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee Ed Royce has said.
"We need to go further to sanction those financial institutions in Asia and beyond that are supporting the brutal and dangerous North Korean regime," Royce said in a statement Friday.......................http://sputniknews.com/us/20150103/1016479848.html
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