{"id":527973,"date":"2022-10-10T09:39:26","date_gmt":"2022-10-10T04:09:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/?p=527973"},"modified":"2022-10-10T10:22:33","modified_gmt":"2022-10-10T04:52:33","slug":"us-sanctions-asian-firms-over-n-korean-fuel-shipments-amid-missile-launch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/us-sanctions-asian-firms-over-n-korean-fuel-shipments-amid-missile-launch\/","title":{"rendered":"US sanctions Asian firms over N.Korean fuel shipments amid missile launch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of increasingly aggressive North Korean missile launches this week, the US on Friday imposed sanctions on people and firms in Asia accused of helping North Korea procure fuel in violation of UN sanctions.<\/p>\n<p>Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted two people and three firms from Singapore, Taiwan and the Marshall Islands.<\/p>\n<p>The US accused them of moving fuel through an &#8220;illicit ship-to-ship transfer&#8221; that circumvents United Nations sanctions restricting the import of petroleum products and supports the development of North Korea&#8217;s weapons programmes and military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In the midst of increasingly aggressive North Korean missile launches this week, the US on Friday imposed sanctions on people and firms in Asia accused of helping North Korea procure fuel in violation of UN sanctions. Treasury&#8217;s Office of Foreign Assets Control targeted two people and three firms from Singapore, Taiwan and the Marshall Islands. The US accused them of moving fuel through an &#8220;illicit ship-to-ship transfer&#8221; that circumvents United Nations sanctions restricting the import of petroleum products and supports the development of North Korea&#8217;s weapons programmes and military.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":40,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[135,130,169],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-527973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business-standard-newspapers","category-newspapers","category-oil-gas-business-standard-newspapers"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527973","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/40"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=527973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/527973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=527973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=527973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/infralive.com\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=527973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}