April 19, 2024
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LDP recommends renewed sanctions on N. Korea

Party bigwig recommends ban on most financial transactions in absence of abductee negotiations progress

The ruling Liberal Democratic Party of Japan has suggested to the government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that certain sanctions against North Korea be strengthened due to a lack of progress on the abduction issue.

Keiji Furuya, the Abe government’s point man on the abduction issue, said that certain sanctions that were dropped last July, namely restrictions on remittances for purposes other than humanitarian causes, should be reinstituted.

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