Barack Obama imposes new North Korea sanctions

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Image captionThe legislation hits North Korea with more stringent sanctions over its nuclear weapons programme
President Obama has signed new expanded sanctions on North Korea, after the country fired a test missile earlier this month.
The country has refused to stop its nuclear programme and the bill was easily passed by Congress.
The sanctions cut off money North Korea needed to develop miniaturised nuclear warheads and long-range missiles.
The US and China are negotiating over a UN Security Council resolution on new sanctions.
Kim Jong-UnImage copyrightGetty Images
Image captionKim Jong-Un has promised to put more satellites in space
China has said some of the measures could cripple North Korea's economy.
The bill also allows for $50m (£35m) to support humanitarian programmes and transmit radio broadcasts into North Korea.
North Korea recently fired a long-range rocket, which critics said was a test of banned missile technology.
State TV announced that North Korea had "successfully placed a satellite in orbit".
South Korea said it would begin discussing with the US the deployment of a missile defence system.
Analysts say Kim Jong-un is looking to appear powerful before his important Seventh Party Congress in May.   http://www.bbc.com/

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