Financial Times: Trump places sanctions on Russian and Chinese companies over N Korea

Published Aug. 23, 2017 at 11:44 am

(FILES) This file photo taken on August 25, 2016 shows a man at a railway station in Seoul watching a television screen reporting news of North Korea's latest submarine-launched ballistic missile test.Recent satellite photos suggest North Korea could be preparing for fresh submarine-based ballistic missile tests, an expert on its military said on August 11, 2017. Joseph Bermudez, a specialist in North Korean defense and intelligence affairs, posted photographs on the authoritative 38 North blog of the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University which he said could show preparations for a test of a submarine-launched ballistic missile (SLBM). / AFP PHOTO / JUNG YEON-JE

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The Trump administration has raised the pressure on Moscow and Beijing to isolate the North Korean regime by imposing sanctions on an array of Chinese and Russian companies and individuals it has accused of helping Pyongyang develop nuclear weapons.

The measures announced on August 22 come just weeks after the UN Security Council imposed tough new sanctions on North Korea in response to the country’s first two tests of a functioning intercontinental ballistic missile — measures backed by China and Russia.