美国对朝鲜银行实施制裁

 

The move followed a UN vote last week to expand sanctions on Pyongyang after its February nuclear test. 

 

It comes amid escalating¹ rhetoric² from the North over the sanctions and US-South Korean exercises now underway. 

 

On Monday, North Korea cut the hotline between the two Koreas and said the Korean War armistice³（停战，休战） was "invalid⁴". 

 

Spokesman Jay Carney said the White House was "certainly concerned by North Korea's bellicose⁵（好战的） rhetoric". 

 

"The threats that they have been making follow a pattern designed to raise tension and intimidate⁶ others."

 

A spokesman for UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon, meanwhile, said the terms of the Korean War armistice "do not allow either side unilaterally（单方面地） to free themselves from it''. 

 

The two Koreas remain technically⁷ at war because the armistice, not a peace treaty, ended the 1950-53 conflict. Although the hotline has been cut, other channels of communication exist between them. 

 

On Tuesday, a spokesman for South Korean President Park Geun-hye said that her first overseas trip since taking office would be to the US in May, taking into account "the recent Korean Peninsula situation". 

 

North Korea conducted its third nuclear test on 12 February, a move that followed an apparently⁸ successful launch in December of a three-stage rocket, seen as a banned test of missile technology. 

 

Regional neighbours and the US fear Pyongyang is working to build a nuclear warhead small enough to put on a missile, but believe it does not yet have the capabilities⁹ to do so.

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