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Of its Nuclear Weaponry and my concern of proliferation. Gather as i was having getings, what is it that we need to do to get china. One of the things im convinced we are unwilling to do and it is from my experience as one of the authors of the iran sanctions universe sanction the of Financial Transactions because that would lead to chinese banks. Has someo that, that of the toughest and most consequential actions on iran. Theave not pursued Financial Transaction Center as an element of getting those who want to facilitate north koreas actions and cream pressure on them at the were created pressure on iran from this engaging with it financially. Freed, have we contemplated the type of financial sanctions that we levied against iran as it relates to those who would be doing business with north korea and he would be pretty them access to their Banking Centers . Permitting them access to their Banking Centers . We are looking at all possible points of leverage and pressure against north k
All those moves are important. We are talking about sanctions here. We sanctioned one company. There are multiple companies affiliated from china, chinarelated companies. Everyone knows who they are. When you look at how long it has taken to get to this point and you look at the limitationings that have been placed, only one company has been designated when there are multiple companies of equal status and some are involved in more of these sorts of deals, it starts to look like we are not trying to do too much too soon. This notion of a standard of proof, if you are going to prosecute someone in federal court. From this perspective, this is not even a secret. The world knows who these companies are and quite frankly, they dont necessarily take great steps to try to hide it in many occasions, because the interest of the chinese government, ultimately, beyond anything else is stability in north korea. They dont want to see a regime collapse and millions of people poring over the border a
Speak for commission on that. I can agree. I said racist is part of my Senate Commerce hearing testimony thats available. That you could see that submitted, you know, here is unilateral decision, were changing the process and here is how its going to be resolved, ever. I asked can we do some of the same things from any of the process, he agrees with a number of the changes i proposed, so theres a great deal of agreement in that universe. If you can do one, why cant you do some of the others and thats falling on deaf ears. It can be a traditionalist across the board. Can you explain what a 99 00 p. M. Red line means, at the chairmans office, suggestions from another commissioner or what is that document that you have out there. So, typically, what will happen is that the bureau staff in charge of drafting particular item will send around to the five Commissioners Offices a red line. So you have the black letter document that was originally circulated and here are all the changes we made
In the years on, we ask how the super bowl got quite so big. Live in santa clara ahead of the americas most popular sporting event. Good to have u company. Welcome to the qua the newshour. The un ieltd nations has strongly condemned north koreas longrange launch. Saying is it will take measures in response to the Nuclear Tests back in january. North koreas state t. V. Made the announcement saying it carried an earth observation satellite. The pictures of the leader reportedly watching that launch were then released. U. N. Secretary general ban kimoon has called the actions deplorable and says koreas president called for trong punitive measures. The u. N. Security council promised to take action. The members of the security counsel strongly condemned this launch. The members of the Security Council underscore that this launch as well as any other bp launch that used the technology it cou it contributes to the dprk development of a Nuclear Weapon delivery system. The members of the Secur