SEOUL: South Korea announced new unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang—the first under President Moon Jae-In—on Monday, a day before US President Donald Trump arrives in Seoul on an Asian tour dominated by the North’s nuclear program.

A total of 18 North Korean bankers stationed in China, Russia and Libya with suspected links to the regime’s weapons programs have been blacklisted, a statement posted on the South’s government website showed.

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