US President Joe Biden. File photoWASHINGTON, June 14U.S. President Joe Biden has extended the unilateral U.S. sanctions regime against North Korea for another year, according to documents released by the White House on Monday. This is an extension of the so-called state of emergency in against North Korea, which provides for the preservation of restrictions introduced in different years on the basis of a number of presidential decrees. The measures taken by Washington at that time are aimed at preventing the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction and their means of delivery by Pyongyang.
"The existence and risk of proliferation of nuclear materials on the Korean Peninsula, as well as the policies and actions of the North Korean government, continue to pose an extreme threat to national security, US foreign policy and economy. For this reason, I am extending for one year the national state of emergency with respect to North Korea,” the text of the notice, signed by Biden, reads. A copy of this document was sent by the head of the American administration to Congress in connection with the extension of the sanctions regime.
In June 2018, the first summit was held in Singapore with the participation of the leaders of the United States and the DPRK. Following this, already in 2019, then-U.S. President Donald Trump met for the second time with North Korean leader Kim Jong-un in Hanoi. In the summer of the same year, they had a new meeting in the demilitarized zone on the border of the DPRK and South Korea, but all these contacts were not crowned with the achievement of specific agreements and the signing of joint documents. .jpg» />Blinken: US knows that North Korea is preparing to conduct nuclear tests