[4] The new restrictions ban purchases of North Korean coal, iron, lead and seafood (the country’s main exports).

The sanctions also prohibit governments around the world from admitting any more North Korean workers, as the regime pockets most of their wages.

[4][3][2] Before adopting this resolution, North Korea had conducted 14 missile tests in 2017,[5] advancing its capabilities to eventually deliver a nuclear warhead.

For the first time they demonstrated the capability by the DPR Korea to deliver warheads to even as far as part of the continental U.S.[6][7][8][5][1] Continued efforts by North Korea in advancing the host of technologies to allow them to launch a nuclear strike, led the UN to for the 6th time impose tightening economic sanctions against the country since they were first imposed in 2006.

[4] According to sources interviewed by The Economist, the regime has grown adept at dodging the restrictions, using illicit slush funds in China to finance business partnerships.