The US imposed sanctions on a Turkish company and diplomats from the DPRK

WASHINGTON. The United States imposed sanctions on Thursday against a Turkish company and several people for alleged non-sanctions against North Korea.

Jonhap said, referring to the US Treasury Department.

Goods and weapons to the DPRK

This said sanctions were imposed on the SIA Falcon International Group for arms and luxury goods trade with North Korea, thereby violating the UN's restrictions on Pyongyang.

"The international community can not stand idly by being sanctioned by UN sanctions," said the Minister of Finance, Steven Munchin, in a statement.

The sanctions will be lifted by disarming the DPRK

He stressed that the US "is fully committed to the definitive, fully-established denuclearization of North Korea and will continue to enforce and enforce this enforcement."

The US also imposed sanctions on the executive director of Hüseyin Sahin, general manager Erhan Culh and North Korean diplomat Ri Song-una, an economic and business adviser at the North Korean embassy in Mongolia.

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Ri Song-un negotiated with SIA Falcon officials earlier in Turkey on trade agreements on weapons and luxury goods earlier this year, said the US Treasury Department.

The statement was made for a visit by the US military diplomat Mike Pompey in Pyongyang to meet the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.

The talks are about denuclearization and finishing preparations for the second US President Donald Trump's summit with Kim.