South Korea, Japan Add to Sanctions on North Korea

South Korea and Japan have imposed unilateral sanctions on their nuclear-armed neighbor, North Korea. The announcement of the sanctions Friday followed Pyongyang’s promise to retaliate against new U.N. sanctions imposed earlier this week. South Korea and Japan had sanctions in place against North Korea. The new sanctions, however, are mainly symbolic, because trade and exchange between the North and its two neighbors are largely nonexistent thanks to existing sanctions, especially...

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