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1NC North Korea Pressure CPCounterplan text: The United States Federal Government should pressure the People’s Republic of China to impose collaborative sanctions against the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea.
Wall Street Journal, June 2016 6/3, “U.S. to Urge China to Put More Pressure on North Korea” http://www.wsj.com/articles/u-s-to-urge-china-to-put-more-pressure-on-north-korea-1464956251 The U.S. will urge China to put further pressure on North Korea to give up its nuclear program during meetings in Beijing next week, a senior U.S. Treasury official said on Friday, days after Washington took fresh action to cut North Korea off from global finance. “China has the ability to both create pressure and use that as a leverage that is a very important part of global efforts to isolate North Korea and get North Korea to change its policies,” said the official, speaking to journalists during a visit to Seoul by Treasury Secretary Jacob Lew. U.S. officials, including Secretary of State John Kerry and Mr. Lew, will head to Beijing early next week for the U.S.-China Strategic and Economic Dialogue, an annual meeting on economic and security issues. –– ADVERTISEMENT –– The U.S. earlier this week designated North Korea a “primary money laundering concern,” under the Patriot Act, which could see non-U. S. banks and entities face sanctions or fines for processing dollar transactions on behalf of Pyongyang, which would inevitably affect Chinese-North Korea business ties. In Seoul, Mr. Lew said the U.S. move builds on Congress legislation from earlier this year as well as Chinese-backed United Nations sanctions put in place in March to put the brakes on Pyongyang’s nuclear ambitions after the country conducted a fourth nuclear test in January. “It reflects the fact that the global community will not just tolerate North Korea’s actions of developing nuclear weapons,” Mr. Lew said, while declining to elaborate on what specific steps will follow to sever global banking relationships with Pyongyang. Efforts to curtail North Korea’s external financial dealings could hit firms in China, which is Pyongyang’s largest trading partner. China is a major donor of aid and energy for North Korea, whose external trade has heavily relied on the world’s-second largest economy because of sparse economic ties with other countries. Despite backing the U.N. sanctions, China continues to regard Pyongyang as a socialist ally. The U.S. in 2005 used its Patriot Act powers in a similar but more limited fashion, listing a Macau-based bank, Banco Delta Asia, as a “primary money laundering concern” after finding North Korea was using the bank to launder illicit funds for the leadership in Pyongyang. The action triggered a bank run at BDA, and other banks elsewhere refused to do banking transactions for North Korea. The U.N. sanctions already target North Korea’s finance, mining and shipping industries—a major source of funding of its nuclear and ballistic missile development. But the official said that given North Korea’s limited economic ties, it will take consistent pressure to see results. “North Korea is so isolated from the global economy that cutting it off from the global economy will not have the same impact that it would have if there were a healthy flow of trade and a flow of economic activity,” the senior U.S. Treasury official said. “It will take a lot of continued, focused attention to make an impact,” he said. 2NC/1NR Pressure CP- North Korea Affirmative- Solvency Overview
Al Jazeera, February 2016 2/25, “US, China call for tougher sanctions on North Korea” http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2016/02/china-call-tougher-sanctions-north-korea-160226035314377.html "We are opposed to any nuclear testing and the launch testing of ballistic missile technology and we hope this resolution will help to prevent further occurrences of this nature," China's Ambassador Liu Jieyi said, following the meeting. However, China did not want to exhort too much pressure because a collapse of the North Korean system could lead to "an expanded South Korea on China's border with its US allies there as well," Al Jazeera's Harry Fawcett, reporting from Seoul, said. "The question is, as always, whether North Korea will get around these sanctions and also the level of enforcement of such sanctions. That has been extremely difficult to pin down on that border between China and North Korea," he said. "What is significant, though, is that we have had reports from the northern side of that border saying that things have changed, at least in the short term. North Korean ships not coming into port, Chinese trucks coming back from North Korea empty." Troy Stangarone, a senior director for congressional affairs and trade at the Korean Economic Institute, told Al Jazeera that Pyongyang was likely to strike back. "We should expect North Korea to try to respond with some kind of provocation. Most likely this will be something in terms of cyber warfare or some other area where it is hard to identify North Korea as an actual perpetrator," he said, speaking from Washington DC. Draft details According to Power, the sanctions would prohibit the sale of small arms and other conventional weapons to North Korea, closing a loophole in earlier resolutions. Power said the sanctions would also limit and in some cases ban exports of coal, iron, gold, titanium and rare earth minerals from North Korea, and would ban countries from supplying aviation fuel, including rocket fuel, to the country. The resolution also imposes financial sanctions targeting North Korean banks and assets, and bans all dual-use nuclear and missile-related items. Items such as luxury watches, snowmobiles, recreational water vehicles and lead crystal were also added to a long list of luxury goods that North Korea is not allowed to import. North Korea started off the new year with what it claims was its first hydrogen bomb test on January 6 and followed that up with the launch of a satellite on a rocket on February 7 that was condemned by much of the world as a test of banned missile technology. Over the past 20 years, North Korea has conducted four nuclear tests and launched six long-range rockets - all in violation of Security Council resolutions. Directory: wp-content -> uploads -> 2015 2015 -> Police Militarization 2015 -> 2015 ihbb championships: hs history Bowl Round 4 – Prelims First Quarter 2015 -> Wrtp/big step · 3841 W. Wisconsin Ave., Milwaukee, wi 53208 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 December 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Darton College 2015 -> Training Workshop on Planning and Implementation of Multi-Sectoral Development Programme (MsDP) in Bihar Date : 6th 2015 -> Rao bulletin 15 June 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 September 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Rao bulletin 1 August 2015 html edition this bulletin contains the following articles 2015 -> Science, and transportation united states senate Download 2.62 Mb. Share with your friends:
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