
The sanctions restrict oil imports as well as metal and agricultural exports. government, backed by the United Nations Security Council, continues to impose harsh sanctions on the DPRK, insisting Pyongyang shut down its nuclear weapons and long-range missile capabilities before steps would be taken to begin to lift Washington’s economic squeeze. The DPRK’s representative said Washington had come to the talks “empty-handed.” special representative on North Korea, and chief North Korean negotiator Kim Myong Gil, ended without agreement. The first “working level” negotiating session since President Donald Trump met North Korean leader Kim Jong Un in Korea in June took place in Stockholm, Sweden, Oct. “A world without nuclear arms and other weapons of mass destruction,” he wrote, “is the aspiration of workers and farmers not only across Asia but the world over.” The demands are a step “toward halting development and deployment of nuclear weapons on the Korean Peninsula by any government,” Clark explained. The letter also demanded an end to “the US government’s ‘nuclear umbrella’ over South Korea and Japan” and that Washington “sign a peace treaty ending the bloody war the US rulers waged against the DPRK from 1950 to 1953.”

The letter was sent on the occasion of the 74th anniversary of the founding of the Workers’ Party of Korea.

10, for the Socialist Workers Party National Committee in a letter to the North Korean government. Washington should immediately and unconditionally “lift all sanctions against the Democratic Peoples Republic of Korea” and “live up to the White House pledge last year to halt joint war games with Seoul,” wrote Steve Clark, Oct.
