{"id":443,"date":"2018-04-10T16:42:20","date_gmt":"2018-04-10T11:12:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/?p=443"},"modified":"2018-04-12T13:17:00","modified_gmt":"2018-04-12T07:47:00","slug":"china-bans-exports-of-dual-use-items-to-north-korea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/china-bans-exports-of-dual-use-items-to-north-korea\/","title":{"rendered":"China Bans Exports of Dual-Use Items to North Korea"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>China has banned exports to North Korea of 32 &#8220;dual-use&#8221; items that can be applied in the development of weapons of mass destruction. The ban also applies to items with potential dual use in the development of conventional weapons.<\/li>\n<li>The list of items, which include radiation monitoring equipment and software that can be used to model fluid dynamics or neutrons, is in line with a <strong>UN Security Council<\/strong> resolution adopted in September to curb North Korea&#8217;s ballistic missile and nuclear programmes.<\/li>\n<li>China is North Korea&#8217;s sole major ally and top trade partner, but Beijing has backed a raft of UN sanctions to put pressure on Pyongyang to give up its nuclear ambitions.<\/li>\n<li>China&#8217;s exports to North Korea fell 32.4 percent in February, compared to the previous year, Chinese customs data showed. Fuel exports to North Korea slowed down to a trickle in as a result of sanctions imposed in September.<\/li>\n<li>Imports from North Korea, including sea food and textiles, dropped 94.7 percent in February as Chinese companies shied away from doing business with Pyongyang.<\/li>\n<li>President Donald Trump&#8217;s administration has urged China to put the economic squeeze on North Korea and seal off any smuggling channels.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>Source:Economic Times<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>China has banned exports to North Korea of 32 &#8220;dual-use&#8221; items that can be applied in the development of weapons<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":444,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_exactmetrics_skip_tracking":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_active":false,"_exactmetrics_sitenote_note":"","_exactmetrics_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[123],"tags":[174,136,291,324,325],"class_list":["post-443","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-current-affairs","tag-china","tag-current-affairs","tag-daily-current-affairs","tag-north-korea","tag-un-security-council"],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=443"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":445,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/443\/revisions\/445"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/444"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=443"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=443"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/triumphias.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=443"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}