North Korea Sanctions Expected to Clear US Senate Panel

U.S. lawmakers are expected Thursday to take another step toward boosting sanctions on North Korea when a Senate panel votes on a package of punitive measures weeks after Pyongyang claimed to have tested a hydrogen nuclear bomb. “It will put in place mandatory sanctions against North Korea itself, but also those entities that support certain efforts that may be taking place within the country,” said Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker, a Tennessee...

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