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North Korea UN
Sanctions
List, Choe Hwi
Gets Waiver
for
PyeongChang
Olympics,
Murky
By Matthew
Russell Lee
UNITED
NATIONS,
February 8 –
Amid
mechanical
reporting on a
selectively
leaked new UN
sanction
report on
North Korea,
the New York
State
Department of
Financial
Services in a
recent court
brief
describes Bank
of Tokyo -
Mitsubishi's
non compliance
with the
sanctions, and
how BOTM tried
to evade
enforcement by
switching to
the quite
willing US
Treasury
Department as
a regulator. Now
South Korea
has succeeded
in getting an
exemption for
a North Korean
official who
is on the UN's
sanctions
list, Choe
Hwi, to travel
to the
PyeongChang
Olympics.
South Korea
asked the UN
Security
Council's 1718
sanctions
committee,
chaired by the
Netherlands,
for an
exemption or
waiver,
because he's listed:
"3. CHOE
HWI a.
Description:
First Vice
Director of
the Workers’
Party of Korea
Propaganda and
Agitation
Department,
which controls
all Democratic
People’s
Republic of
Korea media
and is used by
the government
to control the
public.
b.
A.K.A.: n/a
c.
Identifiers:
YOB: 1954 or
1955,
Nationality:
Democratic
People’s
Republic of
Korea; Gender:
male; Address:
Democratic
People’s
Republic of
Korea." Now,
while the
Netherlands
despite public
online requests
is providing
no
transparency,
the exemption
has been
granted, the
US did not
break silence
despite what
Vice President
Mike Pence is
saying while
in Korea. UN
Secretary
General
Antonio
Guterres is
there too; he
recently held
an initually
undisclosed meeting
with Sudan's
Omar al Bashir
who is
indicted by
the ICC for
genocide. Why
not this
one?
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