US 🇺🇸 sanctions target Chinese 🇨🇳, Russians 🇷🇺 over North Korea 🇰🇵

United States 🇺🇸 imposed 💪 new sanctions on Chinese 🇨🇳 and Russian 🇷🇺 firms and individuals for what it said was their support of North Korea's 🇰🇵 weapons 🚀 programme - a move criticised by both Beijing and Moscow.

"It is unacceptable for individuals and companies in China, Russia, and elsewhere to enable North Korea to generate income used to develop weapons of mass destruction and destabilize the region," Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin said in a statement.

Russia🇷🇺 also criticised criticized the US sanctions, with Deputy Foreign Minister Sergei Ryabkov saying that Kremlin was "starting to work on retaliatory measures, which are unavoidable in this situation".

"The sanctions target a range of North Korea's illicit activities and the focus on Chinese facilitators is another message to Beijing," Anthony Ruggiero, a Foundation for Defense of Democracies senior fellow and former US 🇺🇸 Treasury official, told the Reuters news agency.

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