In the year

2017 File:2017 Events Collage V2.png, From top left, clockwise: The War Against ISIS at the Battle of Mosul (2016-2017); aftermath of the Manchester Arena bombing; The Solar eclipse of August 21, 2017 ("Great American Eclipse"); North Korea tests a s ...

North Korea North Korea, officially the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK), is a country in East Asia. It constitutes the northern half of the Korean Peninsula and shares borders with China and Russia to the north, at the Yalu (Amnok) and T ...

was involved in the

2017 North Korea crisis Seventeen or 17 may refer to: *17 (number), the natural number following 16 and preceding 18 * one of the years 17 BC, AD 17, 1917, 2017 Literature Magazines * ''Seventeen'' (American magazine), an American magazine * ''Seventeen'' (Japanese m ...

, along with other events. The country conducted a nuclear test in September, and several missile tests throughout the year. One of these was the country's first successful test of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), Hwasong-14. Two missiles were launched over

Hokkaido is Japan's second largest island and comprises the largest and northernmost prefecture, making up its own region. The Tsugaru Strait separates Hokkaidō from Honshu; the two islands are connected by the undersea railway Seikan Tunnel. The lar ...

in the

Japanese archipelago The Japanese archipelago (Japanese: 日本列島, ''Nihon rettō'') is a group of 6,852 islands that form the country of Japan, as well as the Russian island of Sakhalin. It extends over from the Sea of Okhotsk in the northeast to the East Chin ...

, in August and in September 2017.

Incumbents

* Party Chairman and State Chairman:

Kim Jong Un Kim Jong-un (; , ; born 8 January 1982) is a North Korean politician who has been Supreme Leader of North Korea since 2011 and the leader of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) since 2012. He is a son of Kim Jong-il, who was North Korea's secon ...

* President of the Supreme People's Assembly:

Kim Yong-nam Kim or KIM may refer to: Names * Kim (given name) * Kim (surname) ** Kim (Korean surname) *** Kim family (disambiguation), several dynasties **** Kim family (North Korea), the rulers of North Korea since Kim Il-sung in 1948 ** Kim, Vietnamese ...

* Premier:

Pak Pong-ju Pak Pong-ju (; born 10 April 1939) is a North Korean politician who served as the Premier of North Korea from 2003 to 2007 and again from 2013 to 2019. He was elected a member of the Presidium of the Workers' Party of Korea (WPK) in 2016. Earl ...

Events

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* North Korea's 2017 calendar has 71 public holidays, which is two more than in

2016 File:2016 Events Collage.png, From top left, clockwise: Bombed-out buildings in Ankara following the 2016 Turkish coup d'état attempt; the Impeachment of Dilma Rousseff, impeachment trial of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff; Damaged houses duri ...

. * N.K. participates in the Asian Winter Games, hosted in Japan.

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Transparency International Transparency International e.V. (TI) is a German registered association founded in 1993 by former employees of the World Bank. Based in Berlin, its nonprofit and non-governmental purpose is to take action to combat global corruption with civil ...

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, location=USA , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=January 30, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170131032828/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/30/world/asia/trump-north-korea-south.html?_r=0 , archive-date=January 31, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web , url=https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/29/readout-presidents-call-acting-president-hwang-kyo-ahn-republic-korea , title=Readout of the President's Call with Acting President HWANG KYO-AHN OF THE REPUBLIC OF KOREA , author= Office of the Press Secretary , date=January 29, 2017 , publisher=

The White House The White House is the official residence and workplace of the president of the United States. It is located at 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue NW in Washington, D.C., and has been the residence of every U.S. president since John Adams in 180 ...

, location=USA , access-date=January 17, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170130045231/https://www.whitehouse.gov/the-press-office/2017/01/29/readout-presidents-call-acting-president-hwang-kyo-ahn-republic-korea , archive-date=2017-01-30 , url-status=dead {{cite news , title=China releases new list of items banned for export to NKorea , first=Christopher , last=Bodeen , url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/technology/china-releases-new-list-of-items-banned-for-export-to-nkorea/2017/01/25/8b9c5150-e374-11e6-a419-eefe8eff0835_story.html , newspaper=

The Washington Post ''The Washington Post'' (also known as the ''Post'' and, informally, ''WaPo'') is an American daily newspaper published in Washington, D.C. It is the most widely circulated newspaper within the Washington metropolitan area and has a large nati ...

, location=USA , date=January 26, 2017 , access-date=February 5, 2017 {{dead link, date=December 2017, bot=medic{{cbignore, bot=medic {{cite news, title=Satellite imagery confirms Chinese oil rig in N. Korea's EEZ - Pictures taken in 2015 indicate more frequent oil exploration in DPRK waters , first=Leo , last=Byrne , url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/satellite-imagery-confirms-chinese-oil-rig-in-n-koreas-eez-2/ , newspaper=NK News , date=January 25, 2017 , access-date=February 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170206022756/https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/satellite-imagery-confirms-chinese-oil-rig-in-n-koreas-eez-2/ , archive-date=February 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=US Humanitarian Aid Goes to North Korea Despite Nuclear Tensions , first=Sung-won , last=Baik , url=http://www.voanews.com/a/united-states-humanitarian-aid-goes-to-north-korea/3692811.html , publisher=Voice of America , location=USA , date=January 25, 2017 , access-date=February 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170206023255/http://www.voanews.com/a/united-states-humanitarian-aid-goes-to-north-korea/3692811.html , archive-date=February 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Asia's Corruption Detailed in New Index , first=Brooks , last=Boliek , url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/asias-corruption-detailed-01252017161505.html?searchterm:utf8:ustring=north%20korea , newspaper= Radio Free Asia , date=January 25, 2017 , access-date=February 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170206023718/http://www.rfa.org/english/news/korea/asias-corruption-detailed-01252017161505.html?searchterm:utf8:ustring=north%20korea , archive-date=February 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile, Challenging Trump , first=Sang-hun , last=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-trump.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 11, 2017 , access-date=February 14, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170215070818/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/world/asia/north-korea-missile-test-trump.html?_r=0 , archive-date=February 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Claims Progress on Long-Range Goal With Missile Test , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-success.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 13, 2017 , access-date=February 14, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170215071730/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-success.html?_r=0 , archive-date=February 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-un's Half Brother Is Reported Assassinated in Malaysia , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , first2=Rick , last2=Gladstone , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/asia/kim-jong-un-brother-killed-malaysia.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 14, 2017 , access-date=February 14, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170214161934/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/14/world/asia/kim-jong-un-brother-killed-malaysia.html?_r=0 , archive-date=February 14, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=Beijing says it's 'in line' with obligations on N. Korean coal - Foreign ministry claim comes after Chinese trade data shows no reduction in coal imports , first=Leo , last=Byrne , url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/beijing-says-its-in-line-with-obligations-on-n-korean-coal/ , newspaper= NK News , location=Washington, D.C, USA , date=January 26, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222055918/https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/beijing-says-its-in-line-with-obligations-on-n-korean-coal/ , archive-date=February 22, 2017 {{cite news, title=China releases new export ban list to N. Korea, prohibits dual-use items - Commerce Ministry move in line with UNSC Resolution 2321 , first=Dagyum , last=Ji , url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/china-releases-new-export-ban-list-to-n-korea-prohibits-dual-use-items/ , newspaper= NK News , location=Washington, D.C, USA , date=January 26, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127201623/https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/china-releases-new-export-ban-list-to-n-korea-prohibits-dual-use-items/ , archive-date=January 27, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea's Yongbyon Nuclear Facility: Operations Resume at the 5 MWe Plutonium Production Reactor , author=38 North , url=http://38north.org/2017/01/yongbyon012717/ , newspaper= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

, location=USA , date=27 January 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170127184159/http://38north.org/2017/01/yongbyon012717/ , archive-date=January 27, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Advisory committee for North Korean human rights policy launched , first=Seong Hwan , last=Kim , url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=14341 , newspaper=

, location=ROK , date=January 28, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170128042437/http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=14341 , archive-date=January 28, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=Four months after the implementation of the North Korean Human Rights Act, the North Korean Human Rights Advisory Committee has formed to provide policy guidance to improve human rights in North Korea. (...) The North Korean Human Rights Advisory Committee will provide expert advice to the Ministry of Unification on the establishment of a basic plan to promote human rights in North Korea, as well as the operation of the North Korean Human Rights Foundation and the North Korean Human Rights Documentation Center. Initially, the Committee was scheduled to be launched shortly after the implementation of the North Korean Human Rights Act in September last year, but the launch was postponed due to a delay imposed by the opposition party on its recommendations for committee members. {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-un Says North Korea Is Preparing to Test Long-Range Missile , first=Sang-Hun , last=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/world/asia/north-korea-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-test-kim-jong-un.html , newspaper=

, location=USA , date=January 1, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170106173858/http://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/01/world/asia/north-korea-intercontinental-ballistic-missile-test-kim-jong-un.html , archive-date=January 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Can the US Prevent North Korea from Testing an ICBM? , first=Michael , last=Elleman , url=http://38north.org/2017/01/melleman012717/ , newspaper= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

, location=USA , date=27 January 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217031302/http://38north.org/2017/01/melleman012717/ , archive-date=February 17, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=South Korean police confirm North Korea's involvement in hacking attacks , first=Seong Hwan , last=Kim , url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk00100&num=14344 , newspaper=

, location=ROK , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219090005/http://www.dailynk.com//english/read.php?num=14344&cataId=nk00100 , archive-date=February 19, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The Cyber Security Bureau of the National Police Agency announced on January 25 that cyber attacks that occurred in November last year and early this year were conducted by North Korean hackers. The attacks took the form of a series of emails containing malicious code from addresses impersonating North Korea human rights and academic research organizations, and were sent to individuals belonging to the diplomatic, security, defense and unification fields. {{cite news , title=North Korea could test midrange missile before ICBM, officials say , first=Elizabeth , last=Shim , url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/01/30/North-Korea-could-test-midrange-missile-before-ICBM-officials-say/2531485786539/ , work=

, location=USA , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=June 9, 2017 , quote="There are no signs of an imminent test firing of an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) by North Korea. But we are closely monitoring any new military activities in the country as it could launch an IRBM at any time if leader Kim Jong-un gives the order," an official at the outh Koreandefense ministry said. , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215033829/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/01/30/North-Korea-could-test-midrange-missile-before-ICBM-officials-say/2531485786539/ , archive-date=February 15, 2017 {{cite news, title=N. Korea likely to launch mid-range missile , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/01/26/0401000000AEN20170126004200315.html , agency=

, location=ROK , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170130094402/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/01/26/0401000000AEN20170126004200315.html , archive-date=January 30, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=As Secretary Mattis prepares for Asia visit, North Korea starts reactor , first=Joshua , last=Berlinger , url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/asia/north-korea-secretary-mattis-asia-visit/index.html , publisher=CNN , location=USA , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216214638/http://www.cnn.com/2017/01/29/asia/north-korea-secretary-mattis-asia-visit/index.html , archive-date=February 16, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The atelliteimages show that most of a river near the reactor is frozen over, except for where water originating from a reactor outlet mixes with the river -- indicating that the reactor is likely operational. {{cite news, title=N. Korea using sensors along border to clamp down on defectors , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/01/30/0401000000AEN20170130000200315.html , agency=

, location=ROK , date=January 30, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221042951/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/01/30/0401000000AEN20170130000200315.html , archive-date=February 21, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=Insiders familiar with the reclusive country told Yonhap News Agency that the North's national security agency has set up unmanned detection devices following orders issued by leader Kim Jong-un. The North Korean leader has stressed the importance of dealing effectively with defectors as quickly as possible. There have been previous reports that the North is using infrared cameras along the Sino-North Korean border, but this is the first time that unmanned sensors have been mentioned as part of Pyongyang's efforts to deal with defectors. Without providing too many details, the sources said that the sensors have been placed on well-known escape routes, such as Hyesan in Ryanggang Province and around Heoryong in the North Hamgyong region. "The North plans to increase the number of sensors to better detect defectors and deter those wanting to escape," said a source, who wished to remain anonymous. {{cite news, title=Russia, N.Korea to cooperate on railway transport, discuss Rajin-Khasan - Russian government to fund program to train NK experts in field of railway transport , first=Dagyum , last=Ji , url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/russia-n-korea-to-cooperate-on-railway-transport-discuss-rajin-khasan/ , newspaper= NK News , location=USA , date=January 31, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170203131339/https://www.nknews.org/2017/01/russia-n-korea-to-cooperate-on-railway-transport-discuss-rajin-khasan/ , archive-date=February 3, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web, url=https://www.mda.mil/system/thaad.html , title=ELEMENTS - Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) , publisher=U.S. Department of Defense -

Missile Defense Agency The Missile Defense Agency (MDA) is the section of the United States government's Department of Defense responsible for developing a layered defense against ballistic missiles. It had its origins in the Strategic Defense Initiative (SDI) which w ...

, location=USA , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219225957/https://www.mda.mil/system/thaad.html , archive-date=February 19, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The Terminal High Altitude Area Defense (THAAD) element provides the Ballistic Missile Defense System (BMDS) with a globally-transportable, rapidly-deployable capability to intercept and destroy ballistic missiles inside or outside the atmosphere during their final, or terminal, phase of flight. {{cite news, title=Jim Mattis, in South Korea, Tries to Reassure an Ally , first1=Michael R. , last1=Gordon , first2=Sang-Hun , last2=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/world/asia/james-mattis-us-korea-thaad.html , newspaper=

, location=USA , date=February 2, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170209210114/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/02/world/asia/james-mattis-us-korea-thaad.html , archive-date=February 9, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Jim Mattis Seeks to Soothe Tensions in Japan and South Korea , first1=Michael R. , last1=Gordon , first2=Sang-Hun , last2=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/jim-mattis-south-korea-japan.html , newspaper=

, location=USA , date=February 5, 2017 , access-date=February 20, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170211202930/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/05/us/politics/jim-mattis-south-korea-japan.html , archive-date=February 11, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=US Defense Secretary Embarks on Damage Control Mission to East Asia , first=Brian , last=Padden , url=http://www.voanews.com/a/us-defense-secretary-embarks-on-damage-control-mission-to-east-asia/3701323.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=February 1, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170201100211/http://www.voanews.com/a/us-defense-secretary-embarks-on-damage-control-mission-to-east-asia/3701323.html , archive-date=February 1, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea rated 'worst of the worst' for violations of rights, liberties - Freedom House included North Korea on a list that includes, Syria, Eritrea and South Sudan. , first=Elizabeth , last=Shim , url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/02/01/North-Korea-rated-worst-of-the-worst-for-violations-of-rights-liberties/9411485966680/ , work=United Press International , location=USA , date=February 1, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215033826/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/02/01/North-Korea-rated-worst-of-the-worst-for-violations-of-rights-liberties/9411485966680/ , archive-date=February 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=James Mattis prioritizes North Korea threat during first official visit - The U.S. defense secretary reaffirmed his commitment to jointly defend South Korea against nuclear threats. , first=Elizabeth , last=Shim , url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/02/02/James-Mattis-prioritizes-North-Korea-threat-during-first-official-visit/9351486045802/ , work=United Press International , location=USA , date=February 2, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217042741/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/02/02/James-Mattis-prioritizes-North-Korea-threat-during-first-official-visit/9351486045802/ , archive-date=February 17, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean Leader's Top Enforcer Is Now the One Getting Purged , first=Sang-hun , last=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/world/asia/north-korea-purge-kim-jong-un-kim-won-hong.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 3, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170215035444/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/03/world/asia/north-korea-purge-kim-jong-un-kim-won-hong.html , archive-date=February 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Has the State Security Boss Been Dismissed? , url=https://nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/has-the-state-security-boss-been-dismissed/ , newspaper=North Korea Leadership Watch , date=February 3, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222063534/https://nkleadershipwatch.wordpress.com/2017/02/03/has-the-state-security-boss-been-dismissed/ , archive-date=February 22, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-un dismisses head of spy agency, South Korea says , agency=

, url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/kim-jong-un-dismisses-head-spy-agency-south-korea-says/ , newspaper=

The Daily Telegraph ''The Daily Telegraph'', known online and elsewhere as ''The Telegraph'', is a national British daily broadsheet newspaper published in London by Telegraph Media Group and distributed across the United Kingdom and internationally. It was f ...

, location=United Kingdom , date=February 3, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217192242/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/kim-jong-un-dismisses-head-spy-agency-south-korea-says/ , archive-date=February 17, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title='Mad Dog' Mattis has sent a crystal clear message to Kim Jong-un: the US means business , first=Con , last=Coughlin , url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/mad-dog-mattis-has-sent-crystal-clear-message-kim-jong-un-us/ , newspaper=

, location=UK , date=February 3, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218185631/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/03/mad-dog-mattis-has-sent-crystal-clear-message-kim-jong-un-us/ , archive-date=February 18, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump Responds to North Korean Missile Launch With Uncharacteristic Restraint , first=Peter , last=Baker , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-missile.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 12, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170225192116/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/12/us/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-missile.html?_r=0 , archive-date=February 25, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Claims Progress on Long-Range Goal With Missile Test , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Chose , first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-success.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 13, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170218074214/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/13/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-success.html , archive-date=February 18, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web, url=http://38north.org/2017/02/jschilling021317/ , title=The Pukkuksong-2: A Higher Degree of Mobility, Survivability and Responsiveness , first=John , last=Schilling , date=February 13, 2017 , publisher= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

, access-date=February 4, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170223005601/http://38north.org/2017/02/jschilling021317/ , archive-date=February 23, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Security Council Press Statement on Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Ballistic Missile Launch (UN document SC/12716-DC/3684) , first=Volodymyr , last=Yelchenko , url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sc12716.doc.htm , newspaper=United Nations Security Council , location=New York, USA , date=February 13, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170225194915/https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sc12716.doc.htm , archive-date=February 25, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the most recent ballistic missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 11 February 2017 and 19 October 2016. These launches are in grave violation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s international obligations under United Nations Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013), 2270 (2016) and 2321 (2016).
The members of the Security Council deplore all the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ballistic missile activities, including these launches, noting that such activities contribute to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension. The members of the Security Council further regretted that the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea is diverting resources to the pursuit of ballistic missiles while Democratic People’s Republic of Korea citizens have great unmet needs. (...) {{cite news, title=China Suspends All Coal Imports From North Korea , first=Sang-hun , last=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/north-korea-china-coal-imports-suspended.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 18, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219080116/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/18/world/asia/north-korea-china-coal-imports-suspended.html , archive-date=February 19, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=China said on Saturday that it was suspending all imports of coal from North Korea as part of its effort to enact United Nations Security Council sanctions aimed at stopping the country’s nuclear weapons and ballistic-missile program. The ban takes effect on Sunday and will last until the end of the year, the Chinese Commerce Ministry said in a brief statement posted on its website on Saturday. (...) Coal has accounted for 34 percent to 40 percent of North Korean exports in the past several years, and almost all of it was shipped to China, according to South Korean government estimates. {{cite news, title=Is China Pushing Trump to Talk to North Korea? , first=Jane , last=Perlez , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/world/asia/china-north-korea-trump-talks.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 21, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222035448/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/world/asia/china-north-korea-trump-talks.html , archive-date=February 22, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-nam, the Hunted Heir to a Dictator Who Met Death in Exile , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , first2=Richard C. , last2=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-assassination-north-korea.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 15, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170216053304/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/15/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-assassination-north-korea.html , archive-date=February 16, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Malaysia Seeks to Question 7 in Killing of Kim Jong-nam , first2=Sang-hun , last2=Choe , first1=Richard D. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/asia/malaysia-killing-of-kim-jong-nam.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 19, 2017 , access-date=February 21, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170221072532/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/19/world/asia/malaysia-killing-of-kim-jong-nam.html , archive-date=February 21, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean Is Arrested in Killing of Kim Jong-un's Half Brother , first1=Richard C. , last1=Paddock , first2=Rick , last2=Gladstone , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/world/asia/north-korea-malaysia-assassination-kim-jong-un-brother.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 17, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170219060502/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/17/world/asia/north-korea-malaysia-assassination-kim-jong-un-brother.html , archive-date=February 19, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-nam Investigators Seek to Question North Korean Embassy Officer , first1=Richard C. , last1=Paddock , first2=Gerry , last2=Mullany , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-killing-malaysia-north-korea.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 21, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222112514/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/21/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-killing-malaysia-north-korea.html , archive-date=February 22, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/malaysia-north-korea-row-escalates-kim-jong-nam-170220033146607.html , title=Malaysia-North Korea row escalates over Kim Jong-nam , publisher=Al Jazeera , date=20 February 2017 , access-date=25 February 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170222040532/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/02/malaysia-north-korea-row-escalates-kim-jong-nam-170220033146607.html , archive-date=February 22, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-nam Was Killed by VX Nerve Agent, Malaysians Say , first2=Sang-hun , last2=Choe , first1=Richard C. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-vx-nerve-agent-.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 23, 2017 , access-date=February 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225053128/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/23/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-vx-nerve-agent-.html , archive-date=February 25, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean embassy cars seen at KL hospital mortuary , url=http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/02/15/cars-north-korean-embassy-seen-at-hkl-mortuary/ , access-date=15 February 2017 , work=The Star , location=Malaysia , date=15 February 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170217142925/http://www.thestar.com.my/news/nation/2017/02/15/cars-north-korean-embassy-seen-at-hkl-mortuary/ , archive-date=February 17, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea's Launch of Ballistic Missiles Raises New Worries , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/north-korea-ballistic-missiles.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 5, 2017 , access-date=March 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170306025458/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/05/world/north-korea-ballistic-missiles.html?rref=collection/timestopic/North%20Korea&action=click&contentCollection=world®ion=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=1&pgtype=collection&_r=1 , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-nam's Death: A Geopolitical Whodunit , first2=Sang-hun , last2=Choe , first1=Richard C. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/22/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-assassination-korea-malaysia.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=February 22, 2017 , access-date=March 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170306030852/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/24/world/asia/china-north-korea-relations-kim-jong-un.html?emc=edit_tnt_20170301&nlid=70309336&tntemail0=y&_r=0 , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Malaysia Forces Out North Korean Ambassador , first1=Ricard C. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/malaysia-north-korea-kim-jong-nam.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 4, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306112426/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/malaysia-north-korea-kim-jong-nam.html , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean Ambassador Leaves Malaysia , first1=Ricard C. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/asia/vx-north-korea-kim-jong-nam.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 6, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307050951/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/06/world/asia/vx-north-korea-kim-jong-nam.html?_r=0 , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump Inherits a Secret Cyberwar Against North Korean Missiles , first1=David E. , last1=Sanger , first2=William J. , last2=Broad , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 4, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306142900/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/north-korea-missile-program-sabotage.html , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=U.S. Strategy to Hobble North Korea Was Hidden in Plain Sight , first1=David E. , last1=Sanger , first2=William J. , last2=Broad , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/left-of-launch-missile-defense.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 4, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306081526/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/04/world/asia/left-of-launch-missile-defense.html , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong-nam killing: the arrested, the wanted, and people of interest - Who are the people arrested and sought in connection with the assassination of the North Korean leader's half-brother? , first=Oliver , last=Holmes , url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/kim-jong-nam-killing-the-arrested-the-wanted-and-people-of-interest , newspaper=The Guardian , location=UK , date=February 22, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306100710/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/feb/22/kim-jong-nam-killing-the-arrested-the-wanted-and-people-of-interest , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Exclusive: North Korean suspects in Kim Jong-nam murder 'hiding' in Pyongyang's embassy in Kuala Lumpur , first1=Arthur , last1=Lim , first2=Barney , last2=Henderson , url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/22/exclusive-north-korean-suspects-kim-jong-nam-murder-hiding-pyongyangs/ , newspaper=The Telegraph , location=UK , date=February 22, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170225232047/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/02/22/exclusive-north-korean-suspects-kim-jong-nam-murder-hiding-pyongyangs/ , archive-date=February 25, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=The Coal Ban: Has China Turned on North Korea? , first=Stephan , last=Haggard , url=https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/coal-ban-has-china-turned-north-korea , newspaper=

Peterson Institute for International Economics The Peterson Institute for International Economics (PIIE), known until 2006 as the Institute for International Economics (IIE), is an American think tank based in Washington, D.C. It was founded by C. Fred Bergsten in 1981 and has been led by ...

, location=USA , date=February 19, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307060542/https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/coal-ban-has-china-turned-north-korea , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=China steel mills caught on the hop by North Korea coal ban , first1=Meng , last1=Meng , first2=Josephine , last2=Mason , url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-coal-northkorea-idUSKBN15Z03Q , date=February 20, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307061058/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-china-coal-northkorea-idUSKBN15Z03Q , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=(LEAD) N. Korean athletes welcomed at Asian Winter Games , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/02/18/0401000000AEN20170218001751315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=ROK , date=February 18, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307061859/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/02/18/0401000000AEN20170218001751315.html , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Furious with North Korea, China stops buying its coal , url=https://www.economist.com/news/china/21717370-theres-message-america-too-furious-north-korea-china-stops-buying-its-coal , newspaper=

The Economist ''The Economist'' is a British weekly newspaper printed in demitab format and published digitally. It focuses on current affairs, international business, politics, technology, and culture. Based in London, the newspaper is owned by The Eco ...

, location=UK , date=February 25, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170226232051/https://www.economist.com/news/china/21717370-theres-message-america-too-furious-north-korea-china-stops-buying-its-coal , archive-date=February 26, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Former US CIA Chief Sees Assassination of Kim Jong Nam as Strategic Move , first=Jenny , last=Lee , url=http://www.voanews.com/a/former-cia-chief-assassination-kim-jong-nam-strategic/3746412.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=March 1, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307065525/http://www.voanews.com/a/former-cia-chief-assassination-kim-jong-nam-strategic/3746412.html , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/kim-jong-nam-malaysia-scraps-visa-free-entry-for-north-koreans , title=Kim Jong-nam death: Malaysia scraps visa-free entry for North Koreans - Diplomatic row escalates in the wake of the killing of the political exile with a deadly nerve agent at Kuala Lumpur airport , agency=Associated Press , date=March 2, 2017 , newspaper=The Guardian , location=UK , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307070049/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/mar/02/kim-jong-nam-malaysia-scraps-visa-free-entry-for-north-koreans , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Victor Cha: N. Korean provocations likely during U.S-S. Korea military exercises , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/02/0401000000AEN20170302000500315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=ROK , date=March 2, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307070554/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/02/0401000000AEN20170302000500315.html , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=N. Korea hints at more missile launches to counter S. Korea-U.S. drills , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/03/0401000000AEN20170303006300315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=ROK , date=March 3, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307070839/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/03/0401000000AEN20170303006300315.html , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=N. Korea completes hydro plant as part of UN project - Though construction time on the small power plant was slow , first=Leo , last=Byrne , url=https://www.nknews.org/2017/03/n-korea-completes-hydro-plant-as-part-of-un-project/?c=1488599930429 , newspaper=NK News , date=March 3, 2017 , access-date=March 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170307071347/https://www.nknews.org/2017/03/n-korea-completes-hydro-plant-as-part-of-un-project/?c=1488599930429 , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea, Citing Kim Jong-nam Dispute, Blocks Malaysians From Exiting , first1=Ricard C. , last1=Paddock , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-north-korea-malaysia-travel-ban.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 7, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307070646/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/kim-jong-nam-north-korea-malaysia-travel-ban.html , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Brazen even by North Korean standards - The world's most toxic nerve agent is discharged in an international airport , url=https://www.economist.com/news/asia/21717823-worlds-most-toxic-nerve-agent-discharged-international-airport-brazen-even-north , newspaper=

, location=UK , date=March 4, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170303050727/http://www.economist.com/news/asia/21717823-worlds-most-toxic-nerve-agent-discharged-international-airport-brazen-even-north , archive-date=March 3, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=THAAD: A Critical Litmus Test for South Korea-China Relations , first=Hee Ok , last=Lee , url=http://38north.org/2017/03/hlee030217/ , newspaper= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

, location=USA , date=March 2, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170302232816/http://38north.org/2017/03/hlee030217/ , archive-date=March 2, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The decision to deploy THAAD has, in fact, severely damaged relations between China and South Korea, countries that have generally seen eye to eye on the North Korean nuclear issue. When North Korea conducted its fourth nuclear test in January 2016, China issued a statement strongly condemning the North. Despite that, the ROK proceeded on February 7, 2016 to begin official consultations with the United States on THAAD deployment. China fought the proposal from the start, contending that the potential step would violate its security interests and disrupt the strategic balance. China regularly voiced its criticism of the prospective deployment in even stronger terms, expressing hope that it would be “relinquished,” warning that it would “wreck” bilateral relations and linking it to a “sword dance by the US aiming at China.” When the ROK ultimately decided to deploy the system, China immediately said it had “expressed its strong dissatisfaction with and resolute opposition to the decision.” (...) South Korean companies have also found business and investment deals in China going sour, with numerous reports of increased inspections, stalled construction projects and difficulties clearing customs. Following the announcement of the recent land swap deal with Lotte International, exchanging Lotte’s golf course in the southeast for military land near Seoul, Chinese Foreign Ministry spokesman Gen Shuang warned again, of “consequences” for the decision, stating that China “will definitely take measures to safeguard its security interests,” with “all the consequences entailed will be borne by the US and the Republic of Korea.” (...) {{cite news, title=China shuts down all packaged tours to Korea - Visitors can come if they buy tickets and travel on their own , url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3030557 , newspaper=Korea JoongAng Daily , location=ROK , date=March 4, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170306114753/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/Article.aspx?aid=3030557 , archive-date=March 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=China Warns of Arms Race After U.S. Deploys Missile Defense in South Korea , first1=Gerry , last1=Mullany , first2=Chris , last2=Buckley , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/thaad-missile-defense-us-south-korea-china.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 7, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170308053821/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/07/world/asia/thaad-missile-defense-us-south-korea-china.html?_r=0 , archive-date=March 8, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=(2nd LD) U.S. State Department calls China's retaliation over THAAD 'unreasonable,' 'inappropriate' , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/03/0401000000AEN20170303000552315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=ROK , date=March 3, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308054132/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/03/0401000000AEN20170303000552315.html , archive-date=March 8, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=China reacts with anger, threats after South Korean missile defense decision , url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-usa-thaad-china-idUSKBN16709W , work=

, date=February 28, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170307202018/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-southkorea-usa-thaad-china-idUSKBN16709W , archive-date=March 7, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Launches Missile, but Test Appears to Fail , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-failure.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 22, 2017 , access-date=March 7, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322170520/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/world/asia/north-korea-missile-launch-failure.html , archive-date=March 22, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Said to Be Target of Inquiry Over $81 Million Cyberheist , first1=Michael , last1=Corkery , first2=Matthew , last2=Goldstein , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/dealbook/north-korea-said-to-be-target-of-inquiry-over-81-million-cyberheist.html , access-date=March 22, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170326154715/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/22/business/dealbook/north-korea-said-to-be-target-of-inquiry-over-81-million-cyberheist.html , archive-date=March 26, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea's Rising Ambition Seen in Bid to Breach Global Banks , first2=Sang-hun , last2=Choe , first1=Paul , last1=Mozur , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/technology/north-korea-hackers-global-banks.html , newspaper=The New York Times , date=25 March 2017 , location=USA , access-date=March 25, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170325222421/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/25/technology/north-korea-hackers-global-banks.html , archive-date=March 25, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Rex Tillerson Rejects Talks With North Korea on Nuclear Program , first=David E. , last=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/asia/rex-tillerson-north-korea-nuclear.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 17, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170319180154/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/17/world/asia/rex-tillerson-north-korea-nuclear.html , archive-date=March 19, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Security Council Press Statement on Democratic People's Republic of Korea's Ballistic Missile Launches (UN document SC/12741-DC/3687) , first=Volodymyr , last=Yelchenko , url=https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sc12741.doc.htm , newspaper=

United Nations Security Council The United Nations Security Council (UNSC) is one of the six principal organs of the United Nations (UN) and is charged with ensuring international peace and security, recommending the admission of new UN members to the General Assembly, an ...

, location=New York, USA , date=March 8, 2017 , access-date=April 1, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170402230908/https://www.un.org/press/en/2017/sc12741.doc.htm , archive-date=April 2, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The members of the Security Council strongly condemned the most recent ballistic missile launches conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 5 March 2017. These launches are in grave violation of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s international obligations under United Nations Security Council resolutions 1718 (2006), 1874 (2009), 2087 (2013), 2094 (2013), 2270 (2016) and 2321 (2016).
The members of the Security Council deplore all the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea ballistic missile activities, including these launches, noting that such activities contribute to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s development of nuclear weapons delivery systems and increase tension in the region and beyond {{cite news, title=Malaysia returns body of assassinated North Korean; hostages released , author=Agencies , url=http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/1224064/malaysia-returns-body-of-assassinated-north-korean-hostages-released , newspaper= Bangkok Post , location=Thailand , date=March 31, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170402232149/http://www.bangkokpost.com/news/special-reports/1224064/malaysia-returns-body-of-assassinated-north-korean-hostages-released , archive-date=April 2, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea-Malaysia deal ends diplomatic spat - Malaysia releases body of Kim Jong-nam and allows North Koreans to depart, as Pyongyang frees Malaysians in return. , url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/north-korea-malaysia-deal-ends-diplomatic-spat-170330133632180.html , publisher=

Al Jazeera Al Jazeera ( ar, الجزيرة, translit-std=DIN, translit=al-jazīrah, , "The Island") is a state-owned Arabic-language international radio and TV broadcaster of Qatar. It is based in Doha and operated by the media conglomerate Al Jazeera ...

, location=Qatar , date=March 30, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170402014919/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/03/north-korea-malaysia-deal-ends-diplomatic-spat-170330133632180.html , archive-date=April 2, 2017 , url-status=bot: unknown {{cite news, title=Amid Dispute, 2 Malaysian Nationals Allowed to Leave N. Korea , agency=

Associated Press The Associated Press (AP) is an American non-profit news agency headquartered in New York City. Founded in 1846, it operates as a cooperative, unincorporated association. It produces news reports that are distributed to its members, U.S. ne ...

, url=http://www.voanews.com/a/two-malaysians-leave-north-korea/3756688.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=March 9, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170309120625/http://www.voanews.com/a/two-malaysians-leave-north-korea/3756688.html , archive-date=March 9, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean Banks Barred From Swift Global Messaging System , first1=Alfred , last1=Liu , first2=Andy , last2=Sharp , url=https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/global-messaging-service-swift-says-it-banned-north-korean-banks , publisher=

Bloomberg L.P. Bloomberg L.P. is a privately held financial, software, data, and media company headquartered in Midtown Manhattan, New York City. It was co-founded by Michael Bloomberg in 1981, with Thomas Secunda, Duncan MacMillan, Charles Zegar, and a 1 ...

, location=USA , date=March 8, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170308101143/https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2017-03-08/global-messaging-service-swift-says-it-banned-north-korean-banks , archive-date=March 8, 2017 , url-status=live {{UN doc , docid=S/2017/150 , body=S , session= , type=R , resolution_number= , title=Report of the Panel of Experts established pursuant to resolution 1874 (2009) , date=27 February 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 {{cite news, title=SWIFT Gets Caught - But does it get punished? , first=Marcus , last=Noland , url=https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/swift-gets-caught , newspaper=

, location=USA , date=March 8, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170403000320/https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/swift-gets-caught , archive-date=April 3, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Analysis Reveals Its Potential for Additional Testing with Significantly Higher Yields , first1=Frank , last1=Pabian , first2=David , last2=Coblentz , url=http://38north.org/2017/03/punggye031017/ , newspaper= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

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The Korea Times ''The Korea Times'' is the oldest of three English-language newspapers published daily in South Korea. It is a sister paper of the '' Hankook Ilbo'', a major Korean language daily; both are owned by Dongwha Enterprise, a wood-based manufacture ...

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, location=USA , date=March 22, 2017 , access-date=April 2, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170322211309/http://www.voanews.com/a/sanctioned-and-shunned-north-korea-finds-arms-deals-in-africa/3777262.html , archive-date=2017-03-22 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea Fires Ballistic Missile a Day Before U.S.-China Summit , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missile-test-xi-trump.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=April 4, 2017 , access-date=April 5, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170405063529/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/04/world/asia/north-korea-ballistic-missile-test-xi-trump.html?_r=0 , archive-date=April 5, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=North Korea-linked hackers are attacking banks worldwide , first=Jose , last=Pagliery , url=http://www.ktvq.com/story/35058227/north-korea-linked-hackers-are-attacking-banks-worldwide , newspaper=

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, location=New York, USA , access-date=April 8, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170408181253/https://www.un.org/sc/suborg/en/sanctions/1718/panel_experts/work_mandate , archive-date=April 8, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea fires a ballistic missile as Trump prepares to host China's Xi , first=Anna , last=Fifield , url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-fires-a-ballistic-missile-as-trump-prepares-to-host-chinas-xi/2017/04/04/8983fa36-1988-11e7-8003-f55b4c1cfae2_story.html , newspaper=The Washington Post , location=USA , date=April 4, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170415184245/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-fires-a-ballistic-missile-as-trump-prepares-to-host-chinas-xi/2017/04/04/8983fa36-1988-11e7-8003-f55b4c1cfae2_story.html , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea blacklisted for money laundering , first=Elizabeth , last=Shim , url=http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/05/North-Korea-blacklisted-for-money-laundering/9511491447897/ , work=United Press International , date=April 5, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170406055650/http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2017/04/05/North-Korea-blacklisted-for-money-laundering/9511491447897/ , archive-date=April 6, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=China Formally Arrests South Korean Pastors For Helping North Koreans Flee Regime , url=http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pastors-04052017105822.html?searchterm:utf8:ustring=NORTH%20KOREA , newspaper=Radio Free Asia , date=April 5, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415192618/http://www.rfa.org/english/news/china/pastors-04052017105822.html?searchterm%3Autf8%3Austring=NORTH%20KOREA , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Rex Tillerson's incredibly odd and confusing statement on North Korea , first=Chris , last=Cillizza , url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/tillerson-north-korea-statement/index.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=April 5, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170405033037/http://www.cnn.com/2017/04/04/politics/tillerson-north-korea-statement/index.html , archive-date=April 5, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump tells Japan 'all options on the table' in face of North Korea provocation , first=Justin , last=McCurry , url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/apr/06/trump-japan-all-options-north-korea-provocation , newspaper=

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Financial Times The ''Financial Times'' (''FT'') is a British daily newspaper printed in broadsheet and published digitally that focuses on business and economic current affairs. Based in London, England, the paper is owned by a Japanese holding company, Ni ...

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, location=USA , date=April 8, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170415201649/http://www.defensenews.com/articles/carrier-vinson-and-strike-group-ordered-back-to-korean-waters , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=A Marathon Like No Other: Foreigners Race Through Streets of Pyongyang , agency=

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, location=UK , date=April 12, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170412092642/http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2017/04/12/north-korea-chinas-xi-tells-trump-peaceful-resolution-needed/ , archive-date=April 12, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea May Be Preparing Its 6th Nuclear Test , first1=William J. , last1=Broad , first2=Kenan , last2=Davis , first3=Jugal K. , last3=Patel , url=https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test.html , newspaper=

, location=USA , date=April 12, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414091841/https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2017/04/12/world/asia/north-korea-nuclear-test.html , archive-date=April 14, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump Warns North Korea Against More Provocations , url=http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-in-fresh-warning-north-korea-will-be-taken-care-of/3809090.html , publisher=Voice of America , location=USA , date=April 14, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170414050650/http://www.voanews.com/a/trump-in-fresh-warning-north-korea-will-be-taken-care-of/3809090.html , archive-date=April 14, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=“North Korea is a problem,” Trump said at the White House. “The problem will be taken care of.” (...) “North Korea is a problem,” Trump said at the White House. “The problem will be taken care of.” {{cite news, title=China Warns of 'Storm Clouds Gathering' in U.S.-North Korea Standoff , first1=Gerry , last1=Mullany , first2=Chris , last2=Buckley , first3=David E. , last3=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/world/asia/north-korea-china-nuclear.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=April 14, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170415021705/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/14/world/asia/north-korea-china-nuclear.html?_r=0 , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea puts its long-range missiles on parade in massive military show , first=Jonathan , last=Kaiman , url=https://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-military-20170415-story.html , newspaper=Los Angeles Times , location=USA , date=April 15, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170415215241/http://www.latimes.com/world/asia/la-fg-north-korea-military-20170415-story.html , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea's display of new missiles is worrying, analysts say , first=Anna , last=Fifield , url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-shows-off-new-missiles-in-huge-military-parade-but-doesnt-test-nuclear-weapon/2017/04/15/ba8b447c-212b-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html , newspaper=The Washington Post , location=USA , date=April 15, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415220251/https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/north-korea-shows-off-new-missiles-in-huge-military-parade-but-doesnt-test-nuclear-weapon/2017/04/15/ba8b447c-212b-11e7-bb59-a74ccaf1d02f_story.html , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=N Korea 'missile launch fails' , url=https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39612095 , publisher=BBC , date=April 16, 2017 , access-date=April 16, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170415231822/http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-39612095 , archive-date=April 15, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korean Missile Launch Fails, and a Show of Strength Fizzles , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , first3=William J. , last3=Broad , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-pyongyang-kim-jong-un.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=April 15, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170416002140/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/15/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-pyongyang-kim-jong-un.html?_r=0 , archive-date=April 16, 2017 , url-status=live {{UN doc , docid=A/HRC/34/L.23 , body=H , session=34th , type=R , resolution_number= , title=Situation of human rights in the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea , date=20 March 2017 {{cite news, title=U.N. Takes Step Toward Future Prosecutions Against North Korea , first=Rick , last=Gladstone , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/world/asia/un-rights-council-north-korea-future-prosecution-crimes.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 24, 2017 , access-date=April 15, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170410051804/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/03/24/world/asia/un-rights-council-north-korea-future-prosecution-crimes.html , archive-date=April 10, 2017 , url-status=live , quote=The Seoul office of the United Nations high commissioner for human rights will be expanded to include criminal justice experts who can develop plans for eventual prosecution. The resolution also would establish a structure to collect evidence “with a view to developing possible strategies to be used in any future accountability process.” {{cite web , url=https://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A/HRC/34/L.23 , title=Situation of human rights in the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (A/HRC/34/L.23) , author=Human Rights Council , date=20 March 2017 , publisher=United Nations , location=Geneva , access-date=April 15, 2017 , quote=12. Decides to strengthen, for a period of two years, the capacity of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, including its field-based structure in Seoul, to allow the implementation of relevant recommendations made by the group of independent experts on accountability in its report aimed at strengthening current monitoring and documentation efforts, establishing a central information and evidence repository, and having experts in legal accountability assess all information and testimonies with a view to developing possible strategies to be used in any future accountability process; , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170416125208/http://www.un.org/ga/search/view_doc.asp?symbol=A%2FHRC%2F34%2FL.23 , archive-date=16 April 2017 {{cite news, title=Aircraft Carrier Wasn't Sailing to Deter North Korea, as U.S. Suggested , last1=Mark , first1=Landler , last2=Eric , first2=Scmitt , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=April 18, 2017 , access-date=April 18, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170418184551/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/18/world/asia/aircraft-carrier-north-korea-carl-vinson.html?_r=0 , archive-date=April 18, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web, url=http://www.navy.mil/view_image.asp?id=235255 , title=170415-N-BL637-044 , date=April 15, 2017 , publisher=

U.S. Navy The United States Navy (USN) is the maritime service branch of the United States Armed Forces and one of the eight uniformed services of the United States. It is the largest and most powerful navy in the world, with the estimated tonnage o ...

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Missile It Tested Can Carry Nuclear Warhead , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/world/asia/north-korea-missile-nuclear.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=May 14, 2017 , access-date=June 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170531091627/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/14/world/asia/north-korea-missile-nuclear.html , archive-date=May 31, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=More Evidence Points to North Korea in Ransomware Attack , first1=Nicole , last1=Perlroth , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/technology/north-korea-ransomware-attack.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=May 22, 2017 , access-date=June 6, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170524084447/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/22/technology/north-korea-ransomware-attack.html , archive-date=May 24, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Hacking Attack Has Security Experts Scrambling to Contain Fallout , 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access-date=September 4, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170903231317/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/03/world/asia/north-korea-tremor-possible-6th-nuclear-test.html , archive-date=2017-09-03 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=North Korea nuclear test: South Korea says it expects further missile launches – as it happened --Seoul is poised to give green light to install four more batteries of controversial Thaad system amid tensions with Pyongyang, url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/03/north-korea-nuclear-test-south-korea-yohap-kim-jong-un-live, newspaper=

, location=UK, date=September 3, 2017, access-date=September 4, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170905002117/https://www.theguardian.com/world/live/2017/sep/03/north-korea-nuclear-test-south-korea-yohap-kim-jong-un-live, archive-date=September 5, 2017, url-status=live {{cite news, title= North Korean nuclear test confirmed in major escalation by Kim Jong-un - Regime confirms sixth nuclear detonation following earthquake that was detected by China, South Korea and the US, first= Justin, last= McCurry, url= https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/03/north-korean-nuclear-test-confirmed-in-major-escalation-by-kim-jong-un, newspaper= The Guardian, location= United Kingdom, date= September 4, 2017, access-date= September 4, 2017, archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170904084953/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/03/north-korean-nuclear-test-confirmed-in-major-escalation-by-kim-jong-un, archive-date= September 4, 2017, url-status= live {{cite news , title=North Korea claims hydrogen bomb being fitted to missile - Kim Jong-un reportedly inspects new nuclear weapon with 'great destructive power' built from components produced within the country , agency=

, url=https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/03/north-korea-claims-hydrogen-bomb-being-fitted-to-missile , date=September 2, 2017 , access-date=September 4, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170904125927/https://www.theguardian.com/world/2017/sep/03/north-korea-claims-hydrogen-bomb-being-fitted-to-missile , archive-date=September 4, 2017 , url-status=live {{cite web , url=http://allthingsnuclear.org/dwright/north-koreas-missile-test-over-japan , title=North Korea's Missile Test over Japan , last=Wright , first=David , publisher=

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, date=August 29, 2017 , access-date=August 30, 2017 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170829190527/http://allthingsnuclear.org/dwright/north-koreas-missile-test-over-japan , archive-date=August 29, 2017 {{cite web , url=http://inesap.org/bulletin20/bul20art08.htm , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080515202422/http://www.inesap.org/bulletin20/bul20art08.htm , archive-date=15 May 2008 , access-date=27 July 2007 , last=White , first= Robert E , title=Space Weapons Ban: Thoughts on a New Treaty {{cite news, title=A look at every North Korean missile test this year, first1=Elizabeth, last1=McLaughlin, first2=Luis, last2=Martinez, url=https://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korean-missile-test-year/story?id=46592733, newspaper=

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, location=USA, date=August 29, 2017, access-date=September 4, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170828190223/https://abcnews.go.com/International/north-korean-missile-test-year/story?id=46592733, archive-date=2017-08-28, url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization, url=https://kcnawatch.co/newstream/279611/kim-jong-un-gives-guidance-to-nuclear-weaponization/, newspaper=

- through KCNA Watch at NK News, location=DPRK (North Korea), date=September 3, 2017, access-date=September 4, 2017, archive-url=https://archive.today/20170905012212/https://kcnawatch.co/newstream/279611/kim-jong-un-gives-guidance-to-nuclear-weaponization/, archive-date=September 5, 2017, url-status=live {{cite news, title=Kim Jong Un Gives Guidance to Nuclear Weaponization, url=https://kcnawatch.co/newstream/1504539067-986400920/songun-korea-demonstrates-tremendous-national-power/, newspaper=

- through KCNA Watch at NK News, location=DPRK (North Korea), date=September 3, 2017, access-date=September 4, 2017, archive-url=https://archive.today/20170905013006/https://kcnawatch.co/newstream/1504539067-986400920/songun-korea-demonstrates-tremendous-national-power/, archive-date=September 5, 2017, url-status=live, quote=Pyongyang, September 3 (KCNA) -- The Nuclear Weapons Institute of the DPRK gave the following statement in connection with the perfect success in the test of a hydrogen bomb for ICBM:
Scientists in the nuclear field of the DPRK successfully carried out a test of H-bomb for ICBM in the northern nuclear test ground of the DPRK at 12:00 on September 3, true to the Workers' Party of Korea's plan for building a strategic nuclear force.
The H-bomb test was carried out to examine and confirm the accuracy and credibility of the power control technology and internal structural design newly introduced into manufacturing H-bomb to be placed at the payload of the ICBM.(...)
Symmetrical compression of nuclear charge, its fission detonation and high-temperature nuclear fusion ignition, and the ensuing rapidly boosting fission-fusion reactions, which are key technologies for enhancing the nuclear fusion power of the second-system of the H-bomb, were confirmed to have been realized on a high level.
The perfect success in the test of the H-bomb for ICBM clearly proved that the Juche-based nukes of the DPRK have been put on a highly precise basis, the creditability of the operation of the nuclear warhead is fully guaranteed and the design and production technology of nuclear weapons of the DPRK has been put on a high level to adjust its destructive power in consideration of the targets and purposes. It also marked a very significant occasion in attaining the final goal of completing the state nuclear force. {{cite news , title=Malaysia soon to deport about 50 North Koreans , first1=Sung-Eun , last1=Lee , url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3031032 , newspaper= Korea JoongAng Daily , location=South Korea , date=March 16, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911071343/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3031032 , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Malaysia says DNA sample confirms murdered Kim Jong Nam's identity, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-malaysia-kim/malaysia-says-dna-sample-confirms-murdered-kim-jong-nams-identity-idUSKBN16M0YB, work=

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, location=USA, journal=North Korea: Witness to Transformation, url=https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/zte-case, access-date=September 10, 2017, url-status=live, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072114/https://piie.com/blogs/north-korea-witness-transformation/zte-case, archive-date=September 11, 2017 {{cite web , url= https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2017/03/secretary-commerce-wilbur-l-ross-jr-announces-119-billion-penalty , title= Secretary of Commerce Wilbur L. Ross, Jr. Announces $1.19 Billion Penalty for Chinese Company's Export Violations to Iran and North Korea - Settlement results in largest civil penalty ever levied in a Commerce Export Control case. Company executives developed elaborate scheme to evade U.S. regulations; Obstructed subsequent investigation , date= March 7, 2017 , publisher=

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, access-date= September 10, 2017 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170909102612/https://www.commerce.gov/news/press-releases/2017/03/secretary-commerce-wilbur-l-ross-jr-announces-119-billion-penalty , archive-date= September 9, 2017 , url-status= live {{cite news , title=North Korea's Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site: Analysis Reveals Its Potential for Additional Testing with Significantly Higher Yields , first1=David , last1=Coblentz , first2=Frank , last2=Pabian , url=http://www.38north.org/2017/03/punggye031017/ , newspaper= 38 North, U.S.-Korea Institute at

, location=USA , date=March 10, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170819210947/http://www.38north.org/2017/03/punggye031017/ , archive-date=2017-08-19 , url-status=live , quote=Commercial satellite imagery of the Punggye-ri Nuclear Test Site shows that substantial tunnel excavation is continuing at the “North” Portal (previously the “West” Portal), which provided support for the last four of the five declared underground nuclear tests conducted by the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea. The North Portal tunnels provide direct access under Mt. Mantap, where up to 800 meters of overlying rock is available for test containment. This locale provides the maximum overlying rock possible within the entire test site and is where the most recent and largest detected test occurred on September 9, 2016 (estimated at 15-20 kilotons yield). The continued tunneling under Mt. Mantap via the North Portal has the potential for allowing North Korea to support additional underground nuclear tests of significantly higher explosive yields, perhaps up to 282 kilotons (or just above a quarter of a megaton). {{cite news , title=North eludes sanctions with China's help , first=Jee-hee , last=Yoo , url=http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3031068 , newspaper= Korea JoongAng Daily , location=South Korea , date=Mar 17, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911071345/http://koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/news/article/article.aspx?aid=3031068 , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=No. of N. Korea's official markets increasing , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/16/0401000000AEN20170316007200315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=South Korea , date=March 10, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911071940/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/16/0401000000AEN20170316007200315.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live , quote=The number of official markets in North Korea has been on a rapid increase under the connivance of the authorities, a U.S. broadcaster said Thursday."The number was recently confirmed to be 439 via an analysis of satellite images of the communist country by Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Radio Free Asia said. The figure was an increase of 40 from a year ago, with some 1-1.8 million people estimated to be using the markets. Markets in the North show an upward trend in their numbers and scale, which is more noticeable under the Kim Jong-un regime, the broadcaster said. {{cite news , title=N. Korean banks still remain on SWIFT financial network despite U.S. sanctions: report , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/15/0401000000AEN20170315000400315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=South Korea , date=March 15, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911004115/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/15/0401000000AEN20170315000400315.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live , quote=The number of official markets in North Korea has been on a rapid increase under the connivance of the authorities, a U.S. broadcaster said Thursday."The number was recently confirmed to be 439 via an analysis of satellite images of the communist country by Curtis Melvin, a researcher at the US-Korea Institute at Johns Hopkins University in the United States, Radio Free Asia said. The figure was an increase of 40 from a year ago, with some 1-1.8 million people estimated to be using the markets. Markets in the North show an upward trend in their numbers and scale, which is more noticeable under the Kim Jong-un regime, the broadcaster said. {{cite news , title=North Korean Banks Under U.S. Sanctions Remain on Swift Network , first=Katy , last=Burne , url=https://www.dowjones.com/scoops/north-korean-banks-u-s-sanctions-remain-swift-network/ , newspaper= Dow Jones , location=USA , date=March 14, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911003339/https://www.dowjones.com/scoops/north-korean-banks-u-s-sanctions-remain-swift-network/ , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=Ministry of State Security officials soften their approach , first=Chae Hwan , last=Kim , url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=14421 , newspaper=

, location=ROK , date=March 17, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072518/http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=14421 , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=North Korea's rocket engine test: World will 'soon witness' significance , first1=Holly , last1=Yan , first2=Lionel , last2=Lim , first3=Taehoon , last3=Lee , url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/19/asia/north-korea-high-thrust-engine-test/index.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=March 19, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072708/http://www.cnn.com/2017/03/19/asia/north-korea-high-thrust-engine-test/index.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=Merchants resist price controls , first=Mi Jin , last=Kang , url=http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk01500&num=14426 , newspaper=

, location=ROK , date=March 20, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170908010003/http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?num=14426&cataId=nk01500 , archive-date=2017-09-08 , url-status=live , quote=In the midst of North Korea’s lean period in March, the prices of some market goods in Ryanggang Province are fluctuating wildly, causing difficulties for ordinary North Koreans. In contrast, rice prices are exhibiting resistance to such changes. This trend is being seen as an indicator that the regime’s ability to influence market prices is in decline, and market forces are taking the lead. {{cite news , title=N. Korea urges UN to remind of danger of U.S.-S. Korea military drills , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/23/0401000000AEN20170323013300315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=South Korea , date=March 23, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911071557/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/23/0401000000AEN20170323013300315.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live , quote=North Korea has urged the United Nations to draw attention to what it views as the danger of joint U.S.-South Korea military drills, saying that they pose a threat to global peace and security, its state media said Thursday. Ja Song-nam, the North Korean representative to the UN, made the appeal in a letter he sent to UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres on Wednesday, according to the Korean Central News Agency (KCNA). {{cite news , title=N.K. vows continued nuclear deterrent steps against U.S. hostile policy , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/20/0401000000AEN20170320007600315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=South Korea , date=March 20, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506113015/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/20/0401000000AEN20170320007600315.html , archive-date=2017-05-06 , url-status=live , quote=North Korea on Monday hinted at additional provocations by vowing that it will continue to take nuclear deterrent steps against the U.S.' hard-line policy toward it."Our army and people will continuously bolster up our nuclear deterrent for self defense down the road under the conditions that high-level U.S. government officials adamantly stick to their hostile policy toward us," the Rodong Sinmun, a daily of the ruling Workers' Party, said in a commentary titled "The Root of Intensification of Tension on the Korean Peninsula." The possession of strong nuclear weapons is "the only way" to ultimately put North Korea-U.S. relations in order and "absolute collateral" for peace and security on the Korean Peninsula, the paper said. {{cite news , title=Trump Continues US Policy of Sanctions Against North Korea , first=Brian , last=Padden , url=https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-continues-us-policy-of-sanctions-against-north-korea/3773389.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=March 20, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072349/https://www.voanews.com/a/trump-continues-us-policy-of-sanctions-against-north-korea/3773389.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live , quote=Despite U.S. President Donald Trump’s strong rhetoric about restraining the North Korean nuclear threat, U.S. policy options seem to be essentially the same as they were under former President Obama’s Strategic Patience strategy. Under former President Barack Obama’s Strategic Patience policy, the U.S. refused to engage with the Kim Jong Un regime until it committed to end its nuclear program, while also responding to provocations with increasing military deterrence, economic sanctions and diplomatic isolation. {{cite news , title=US, China poles apart over North Korea , first=Whan-woo , last=Yi , url=http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2017/03/113_225955.html , newspaper=The Korea Times , location=ROK , date=March 19, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072251/http://koreatimes.co.kr/www/news/nation/2017/03/113_225955.html , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=South Korean President Moon Jae-in suspends further THAAD deployment, first=Thomas, last=Maresca, url=https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/06/07/south-korean-president-moon-jae-suspends-thaad-deployment/102582572/, newspaper=

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, date=June 7, 2017, access-date=September 10, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072259/https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/world/2017/06/07/south-korean-president-moon-jae-suspends-thaad-deployment/102582572/, archive-date=2017-09-11, url-status=live {{cite news, title=South Korea's Moon orders talks with U.S. to deploy more THAAD units after North Korea ICBM test, url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-thaad/south-koreas-moon-orders-talks-with-u-s-to-deploy-more-thaad-units-after-north-korea-icbm-test-idUSKBN1AD2ES, work=Reuters, date=July 28, 2017, access-date=September 10, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911075609/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-northkorea-missiles-thaad/south-koreas-moon-orders-talks-with-u-s-to-deploy-more-thaad-units-after-north-korea-icbm-test-idUSKBN1AD2ES, archive-date=2017-09-11, url-status=live {{cite news , title=N.K. says it conducts missile launching drills on regular basis , author=Sooyeon , url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/24/0401000000AEN20170324012000315.html , agency=Yonhap News Agency , location=South Korea , date=March 24, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170506112953/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/24/0401000000AEN20170324012000315.html , archive-date=2017-05-06 , url-status=live , quote=North Korea has been conducting ballistic missile launching drills on a regular basis to counter what it called the United States' nuclear war threats, Pyongyang's state media said Friday. In its first reference to the country regularly launching missiles, North Korea is seen as hinting that it could conduct missile provocations down the road. "It was a normal drill that was aimed at countering nuclear war maneuvers staged by enemy forces including the U.S.," said the Rodong Sinmun, the country's main newspaper, referring to the country's firing of four ballistic missiles on March 6. "Our strategic force is conducting a ballistic rocket launching drill on a regular basis," it added. {{cite news, title=(LEAD) N. Korea appears all set for nuke test: officials, url=http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/24/0401000000AEN20170324002251315.html, agency=Yonhap News Agency, location=South Korea, date=March 24, 2017, access-date=September 10, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072210/http://english.yonhapnews.co.kr/northkorea/2017/03/24/0401000000AEN20170324002251315.html, archive-date=2017-09-11, url-status=live {{cite news , title=Rex Tillerson's 'new approach' to North Korea sounds a lot like the old approach - He even used the same language as the Obama and Bush administrations. , first=Jeffrey , last=Lewis , url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/24/rex-tillersons-new-approach-to-north-korea-sounds-a-lot-like-the-old-approach/ , newspaper=The Washington Post , location=USA , date=Mar 24, 2017 , access-date=September 10, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911072822/https://www.washingtonpost.com/posteverything/wp/2017/03/24/rex-tillersons-new-approach-to-north-korea-sounds-a-lot-like-the-old-approach/ , archive-date=2017-09-11 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=After U.S. Compromise, Security Council Strengthens North Korea Sanctions, first1=Somini, last1=Sengupta, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/world/asia/us-security-council-north-korea.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=September 11, 2017, access-date=September 11, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170911171854/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/11/world/asia/us-security-council-north-korea.html, archive-date=2017-09-11, url-status=live {{cite news, title=北朝鮮がミサイル発射の模様, url=http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170915/k10011139881000.html, newspaper=

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, location=Japan, date=September 15, 2017, access-date=September 15, 2017, archive-url=https://archive.today/20170914221554/http://www3.nhk.or.jp/news/html/20170915/k10011139881000.html, archive-date=2017-09-14, url-status=dead {{cite news, title=North Korea Launches Another Missile, Escalating Crisis, first1=Russell, last1=Goldman, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/world/asia/north-korea-missile.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=September 15, 2017, access-date=September 15, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914225845/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/14/world/asia/north-korea-missile.html, url-status=live, archive-date=September 14, 2017 {{cite news, title=U.S. Seeks U.N. Consent to Interdict North Korean Ships, first1=David E., last1=Sanger, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/us-un-north-korea-sanctions.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=September 6, 2017, access-date=September 17, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914180046/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/06/world/us-un-north-korea-sanctions.html, archive-date=2017-09-14, url-status=live {{cite news, title=At U.N., Trump Singles Out 'Rogue' Nations North Korea and Iran, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/world/americas/united-nations-general-assembly.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=September 19, 2017, access-date=September 21, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920172517/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/19/world/americas/united-nations-general-assembly.html, archive-date=2017-09-20, url-status=live {{cite web , url= https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/21/presidential-executive-order-imposing-additional-sanctions-respect-north , title= Presidential Executive Order on Imposing Additional Sanctions with Respect to North Korea , location= Washington, D.C. , via= National Archives , publisher=

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, access-date= September 23, 2017 {{cite web , url= https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/25/2017-20647/imposing-additional-sanctions-with-respect-to-north-korea , title= Executive Order 13810 of September 20, 2017 - Imposing Additional Sanctions With Respect to North Korea , date= Sep 20, 2017 , publisher= Federal Register , location= USA , access-date= September 23, 2017 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170923191637/https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2017/09/25/2017-20647/imposing-additional-sanctions-with-respect-to-north-korea , archive-date= September 23, 2017 , url-status= live {{cite news , title=Trump turns to sanctions, diplomacy on North Korea after threatening destruction , first=Kevin , last=Liptak , url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-sanctions/index.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=September 22, 2017 , access-date=September 23, 2017 , archive-url=https://archive.today/20170921170201/http://edition.cnn.com/2017/09/21/politics/donald-trump-north-korea-sanctions/index.html , archive-date=2017-09-21 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump signs new order to expand North Korea sanctions - Latest measure bans foreign banks and businesses doing any trade with Pyongyang to curb its nuclear missile programme, url=http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/170921181652361.html, publisher=

, location=Doha, Qatar, date=September 22, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922225936/http://www.aljazeera.com/news/2017/09/170921181652361.html, archive-date=2017-09-22, url-status=live {{cite news, title=$8 Million to Aid Poor North Koreans? South Korea and Japan Disagree, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/world/asia/north-korea-humanitarian-aid.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=September 15, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170922075815/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/15/world/asia/north-korea-humanitarian-aid.html, archive-date=September 22, 2017, url-status=live {{cite news, title=A Rare Round of Diplomacy From North Korea's Top Diplomat, first=Gardiner, last=Harris, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-asean-tillerson.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=August 7, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827155505/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/07/world/asia/north-korea-asean-tillerson.html, archive-date=2017-08-27, url-status=live {{cite news, title=Trump Says He Will Not Talk to North Korea. Experts Fear He Will., first1=Mark, last1=Landler, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/trump-north-korea-extortion-money.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=August 30, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170914204818/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/30/us/politics/trump-north-korea-extortion-money.html, archive-date=2017-09-14, url-status=live, quote=a meeting between Mr. Trump and Mr. Kim, these experts said, could open the door to ratifying North Korea’s nuclear status or scaling back America’s joint military exercises with South Korea. That could sunder American alliances with Japan and South Korea and play to the benefit of China, which has long advocated direct dialogue between Washington and Pyongyang.
“What the North Koreans are angling for is to bring the danger and tension to a crescendo, and then to pivot to a peace proposal,” said Daniel R. Russel, who served until March as the assistant secretary of state for East Asian affairs. “All of this is focused on pressuring the U.S. to enter direct talks with Kim on his terms. That is the big trap.” {{cite news, title=A Pacifist Japan Starts to Embrace the Military, first1=Motoko, last1=Rich, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/korea-missile-japan-pacifism.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=August 29, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170921002045/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/29/world/asia/korea-missile-japan-pacifism.html, archive-date=2017-09-21, url-status=live {{cite news , title=North Korea's Missile Success Is Linked to Ukrainian Plant, Investigators Say , first1=William J. , last1=Broad , first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html , newspaper=The New York Times , location=USA , date=August 14, 2017 , access-date=September 23, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827005330/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/14/world/asia/north-korea-missiles-ukraine-factory.html , archive-date=2017-08-27 , url-status=live , quote=North Korea’s success in testing an intercontinental ballistic missile that appears able to reach the United States was made possible by black-market purchases of powerful rocket engines probably from a Ukrainian factory with historical ties to Russia’s missile program, according to an expert analysis being published Monday and classified assessments by American intelligence agencies.
The studies may solve the mystery of how North Korea began succeeding so suddenly after a string of fiery missile failures, some of which may have been caused by American sabotage of its supply chains and cyberattacks on its launches. After those failures, the North changed designs and suppliers in the past two years, according to a new study by Michael Elleman, a missile expert at the International Institute for Strategic Studies. {{cite web , url= http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/30/saving-ukraine-s-defense-industry-pub-56282 , title= Saving Ukraine's Defense Industry , first1= Alexandra , last1= McLees , first2= Eugene , last2= Rumer , date= July 30, 2014 , publisher= Carnegie Endowment for International Peace , location= Washington, D.C., USA , access-date= October 7, 2017 , archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170818051504/http://carnegieendowment.org/2014/07/30/saving-ukraine-s-defense-industry-pub-56282 , archive-date= August 18, 2017 , url-status= live {{cite journal , last1=Elleman , first1=Michael , date=14 August 2017 , title=The secret to North Korea's ICBM success - How has North Korea managed to make such astounding progress with its long-range missile programme over the last two years? Here, Michael Elleman shares the first solid evidence that North Korea has acquired a high-performance liquid-propellant engine from illicit networks in Russia and Ukraine. , journal=ISS Voices , publisher=

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, location=United Kingdom , url=http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2017-adeb/august-2b48/north-korea-icbm-success-3abb , access-date=May 13, 2017 , url-status=live , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170814113537/http://www.iiss.org/en/iiss%20voices/blogsections/iiss-voices-2017-adeb/august-2b48/north-korea-icbm-success-3abb , archive-date=14 August 2017 {{cite news, title= North Korea's Alarmed Neighbors Consider Deploying Deadlier Weapons, first2= Sang-hun, last2= Choe, first1= Jonathan, last1= Soble, url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-japan-missile-south.html, newspaper= The New York Times, location= USA, date= August 8, 2017, access-date= September 23, 2017, archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20170827155500/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/08/08/world/asia/north-korea-japan-missile-south.html, archive-date= 2017-08-27, url-status= live {{cite news , title=Kim Jong-un, Taking On U.S. Directly, Sidelines China and South Korea , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , first2=Jane , last2=Perlez , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/world/asia/north-korea-us-china-south.html , newspaper=The New York Times , date=23 September 2017 , location=USA , access-date=September 23, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170923225423/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/world/asia/north-korea-us-china-south.html , archive-date=2017-09-23 , url-status=live {{cite news, title=Mapping the Brutality of North Korea, and Where the Bodies Are Buried, first1=Sang-hun, last1=Choe, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/world/asia/north-korea-execution-sites.html, newspaper=The New York Times, location=USA, date=July 19, 2017, access-date=September 23, 2017, archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170827060918/https://www.nytimes.com/2017/07/19/world/asia/north-korea-execution-sites.html, archive-date=2017-08-27, url-status=live {{cite book , first1=Sarah , last1=Son , first2=Dan , last2=Bielefeld , first3=Sehyek , last3=Oh , first4=Scott , last4=Stevens , first5=Hubert , last5=Younghwan Lee , date=July 2017 , title=Mapping Crimes Against Humanity in North Korea , publisher=Transitional Justice Working Group (TJWG) , location=Seoul, ROK , url=https://en.tjwg.org/TJWG_Report-Mapping_Crimes_Against_Humanity_in_North_Korea(July2017)-Eng_Final.pdf , access-date=September 23, 2017 , archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920122925/https://en.tjwg.org/TJWG_Report-Mapping_Crimes_Against_Humanity_in_North_Korea(July2017)-Eng_Final.pdf , archive-date=2017-09-20 , url-status=live {{cite news , title=South Korea Seeks to Assure Citizens U.S. Won't Strike North Pre-emptively , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/04/11/world/asia/south-korea-north-military-strike.html , newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date= April 11, 2017, access-date= September 23, 2017 {{cite news , title=North Korea Accuses U.S. of 'Mugging' Its Diplomats in New York , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/06/18/world/asia/north-korea-accuses-us-of-mugging-its-diplomats-in-new-york.html, newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date= June 18, 2017, access-date= September 23, 2017 {{cite news , url= https://www.nknews.org/2017/07/u-s-state-department-confirms-return-of-seized-n-korean-package/ , title=U.S. State Department confirms return of seized N. Korean package - KCNA yesterday claimed the package was returned along with an apology from Washington , first=Leo , last=Byrne , date= July 20, 2017 , work= NK News , access-date= September 23, 2017 {{cite news , title= New Order Indefinitely Bars Almost All Travel From Seven Countries, first1=Michael D. , last1=Shear , url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/24/us/politics/new-order-bars-almost-all-travel-from-seven-countries.html, newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date= September 24, 2017 , access-date= September 24, 2017 {{cite web , url= https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/24/president-donald-j-trump-strengthens-security-standards-traveling , title=President Donald J. Trump Strengthens Security Standards For Traveling to America , author= Office of the Press Secretary , date=September 24, 2017 , location= Washington, D.C., USA , via= National Archives , publisher=

, access-date= September 24, 2017 {{cite web , url= https://trumpwhitehouse.archives.gov/the-press-office/2017/09/24/fact-sheet-proclamation-enhancing-vetting-capabilities-and-processes , title= Fact Sheet: Proclamation on Enhancing Vetting Capabilities and Processes for Detecting Attempted Entry Into the United States by Terrorists or Other Public-Safety Threats, author= Office of the Press Secretary , date=September 24, 2017 , location= Washington, D.C., USA , access-date= September 24, 2017 , via= National Archives , publisher=

, quote=The government in North Korea does not cooperate with the United States Government in any respect and fails to satisfy all information-sharing requirements. Accordingly, the entry into the United States of nationals of North Korea as immigrants and nonimmigrants is suspended. {{cite news , title= North Korea asserts a right to shoot down U.S. bombers, first1= Carol, last1=Morello, url= https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/north-korea-asserts-its-right-to-shoot-down-us-bombers/2017/09/25/74da66c4-a204-11e7-8cfe-d5b912fabc99_story.html, newspaper=

, location=USA , date= September 25, 2017 , access-date= September 25, 2017 {{cite news , title= At U.N. and in the Air, North Korea and U.S. Trade Tough Messages, first1= Sang-hun, last1=Choe, first2=Jane , last2=Perlez , url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/23/world/asia/north-korea-us-china-south.html, newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date= September 23, 2017 , access-date= September 25, 2017 {{cite news , title= North Korea Says It Has the Right to Shoot Down U.S. Warplanes, first1= Rick, last1=Gladstone, first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , url= https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/25/world/asia/trump-north-korea.html, newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date= September 25, 2017 , access-date= September 25, 2017 {{cite news , title=North Korea Declares 1953 War Truce Nullified , first1=Sang-hun , last1=Choe , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2013/03/12/world/asia/north-korea-says-it-has-nullified-1953-korean-war-armistice.html , newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date=March 11, 2013 , access-date= September 25, 2017 {{cite news , title=U.S. in Direct Communication With North Korea, Says Tillerson , first1=David E., last1=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/09/30/world/asia/us-north-korea-tillerson.html , newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date=Sep 30, 2017 , access-date= Sep 30, 2017 {{cite news , title=Trump Says Tillerson Is 'Wasting His Time' on North Korea , first1=Peter , last1=Baker , first2=David E. , last2=Sanger , url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/10/01/us/politics/trump-tillerson-north-korea.html , newspaper= The New York Times , location=USA , date=October 1, 2017 , access-date= October 4, 2017 {{cite news, url=https://www.nytimes.com/2017/11/20/us/politics/north-korea-trump-terror.html, title=Trump Returns North Korea to List of State Sponsors of Terrorism, author1=Michael D. Shear, author2=David E. Sanger, newspaper=The New York Times, date=20 November 2017, access-date=21 November 2017 {{cite web, last1=Westcott, first1=Ben, title=North Korea denounces US terror listing as a 'serious provocation', url=http://www.cnn.com/2017/11/22/asia/north-korea-us-terror-provocation/index.html, publisher=CNN, date=22 November 2017 , access-date=22 November 2017 {{cite news , title=Trump: US to Redesignate North Korea as State Sponsor of Terror , first=Peter , last=Heinlein , url=https://www.voanews.com/a/north-korea-once-again-on-us-terror-list/4127943.html , publisher=

, location=USA , date=November 21, 2017 , access-date= November 22, 2017 {{cite news , title=North Korea Continues Work on Second Barge Used for SLBM Testing , first= Joseph S. , last=Bermudez Jr. , url=http://www.38north.org/2017/09/nampo092817/ , work= 38 North , location=USA , date= September 28, 2017, access-date= November 23, 2017 {{cite news , title=Italy becomes fifth country to expel North Korean ambassador , first=Anna , last= Fifield, url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/europe/italy-becomes-fifth-country-to-expel-north-korean-ambassador/2017/10/01/98785c14-a6ad-11e7-8ed2-c7114e6ac460_story.html , newspaper=

, date=October 1, 2017 , access-date= November 23, 2017 {{cite news , title=Sinpo South Shipyard: Preparations for a New SLBM Test? , first= Joseph S. , last=Bermudez Jr. , url=http://www.38north.org/2017/07/sinpo072017/ , work= 38 North , location=USA , date=July 20, 2017, access-date= November 23, 2017 {{cite news , title= Chinese freighter with North Korean arms seized in Egypt , first=Erofey , last=Schkvarkin , url=http://maritimebulletin.net/2017/10/02/chinese-freighter-with-north-korean-arms-seized-in-egypt/ , newspaper=Maritime Bulletin , date= October 2, 2017, access-date= November 22, 2017 {{cite news , title=A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer , first=Joby , last=Warrick, url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/a-north-korean-ship-was-seized-off-egypt-with-a-huge-cache-of-weapons-destined-for-a-surprising-buyer/2017/10/01/d9a4e06e-a46d-11e7-b14f-f41773cd5a14_story.html?tid=pm_pop_b , newspaper=

, location= USA , date=October 1, 2017 , access-date= November 23, 2017 {{cite news , title= North Korea launches new ballistic missile, url= https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42160227, publisher=

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