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Article: (LEAD) U.S. announces export ban on luxury goods to North Korea.
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- YON - Yonhap News Agency of Korea
- Article date:
- December 1, 2006
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WASHINGTON, Nov. 30 (Yonhap) -- The United States announced Thursday an export ban on luxury goods to North Korea by way of implementing U.N. sanctions against the communist country for its nuclear weapons test last month.The ban list includes some 60 expensive, brand-name items, ranging from yachts, race cars and station wagons to DVD players and television sets larger than 29 inches. The U.S. also left room for further bans, reserving the right to take into account "national discretion on what constitutes a luxury good.""While North Korea's people starve and suffer, there is simply no excuse for the regime to be splurging on cognac and cigars," Secretary of ...