NEWSLETTERS
SUBSCRIBE

Print Edition

Log in
My Account
Log in
Subscribe
My Account
Log in

‘Another positive step forward’: U.S. Sen. Cory Gardner lauds expanded North Korea sanctions

By Ernest Luning 01/25/2018 | updated 8 years ago

Colorado’s Sen. Cory Gardner, a Yuma Republican, cheered a new round of sanctions imposed by the Trump administration Wednesday on North Korean business and financial operations, calling it “another positive step forward in this administration’s efforts to hold bad actors responsible for aiding North Korea and their rogue regime.”

The increased sanctions are an attempt to crimp North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un’s program to build nuclear weapons capable of threatening the U.S. mainland. The policy targets the isolated country’s crude oil industry, blacklisting business entities, individuals and six ships Washington says help the North evade trade sanctions.

Gardner, who chairs the Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on East Asia, the Pacific, and International Cybersecurity, said in a statement Wednesday he supports the Treasury Department’s move to bar Americans from dealing with Pyongyang’s “enablers,” including North Korean representatives in China and Russia.

“The ultimate goal must be the complete, verifiable, and irreversible denuclearization of the North Korean regime, and our policy must be to give nations and companies a clear choice – do business with the United States or do business with a rogue regime like North Korea,” Gardner said.

Gardner is the chief sponsor of bipartisan legislation to require the president to impose an economic embargo on North Korea and related entities. The Leverage to Enhance Effective Diplomacy Act would also require the president to keep any company or financial institution conducting significant trade with North Korea from doing business in the U.S. financial system. The bill is pending before the Senate.

President Barack Obama signed another Gardner bill, the North Korea Sanctions Policy and Enhancement Act, into law in 2016.

 
J. Scott Applewhite
Ernest Luning

Reporter

PREV

PREVIOUS

Denver mayor defies Justice Department in investigation of illegal immigrant policy

WASHINGTON – Denver’s mayor is pledging to defy Justice Department investigators who Wednesday demanded information about whether the city and county are withholding information on illegal immigrants. The Justice Department announced it was investigating 23 cities and states accused of restricting information about illegal immigrants who immigration officials want to identify and deport. The city […]

NEXT

NEXT UP

The Colorado Springs Gazette: Global warming bill would kill good jobs

There they go again. Working people should lose high-wage jobs. Low-income households should pay more for home heating fuel and gasoline. Anything to stop global warming. Rep. Mike Foote and Sen. Matt Jones, each a Boulder County Democrat, introduced Senate Bill 18-048 because “oil and gas methane emissions contribute to global warming.” They also “release […]
Welcome Back.

Streak: 9 days i

Stories you've missed since your last login:

Stories you've saved for later:

Recommended stories based on your interests:

Edit my interests