SEOUL: South Korea has drawn up a list of 60 submarine components to be banned from export to North Korea, the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MOFA) in Seoul said in an 8 December statement.
The watch list, which calls on other governments to ensure that the parts are not shipped to the communist country, was circulated at the two-day plenary meeting of the Wassenaar Arrangement on Export Controls for Conventional Arms and Dual-Use Goods and Technologies, which opened in Vienna on 6 December, the MOFA said. The watch list contains items that are not banned under existing multilateral trade regimes “but can contribute to North Korea’s submarine programme”, the statement said.
