UAE defense chief in SeoulSouth Korean Defense Minister Jeong Kyeong-doo (R) and his visiting UAE counterpart, Mohammed Ahmed Al Bowardi (L), enter the defense ministry building in Seoul for talks on Dec. 5, 2018. (Yonhap)
“Bibimbap,” a traditional Korean dish of mixed rice and vegetables, is served to UAE officials and journalists during an Iftar dinner at the Korean embassy in Abu Dhabi, the capital of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), on May 23, 2018, in this photo courtesy of the South Korean embassy in the UAE. Iftar is the first evening meal at the end of fasting during Ramadan. (Yonhap)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in aims a rifle at a target as he visits a contingent of the Akh unit, a South Korean unit stationed in the United Arab Emirates (UAE), in Abu Dhabi on March 27, 2018. Moon is on a four-day visit to the UAE from March 24. (Yonhap)
South Korean President Moon Jae-in (4th from L, front) and Crown Prince Mohammed bin Zayed Al-Nahyan (6th from L) of Abu Dhabi, join a group photo with South Korean officials and workers during a ceremony at a nuclear power station in Barakah, about 300 km west of the United Arab Emirates’ capital, on March 26, 2018, to mark the completion of a nuclear reactor built by South Korea. It is the first out of four reactors South Korea plans to provide the UAE under a 2009 deal that marked South Korea’s first exports of nuclear reactors. (Yonhap)
Here is the latest development in regards to drying up foreign currency to the Kim regime:
Korean waitresses play music at the Pyongyang Okryu-Gwan North Korean Restaurant in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, on July 25, 2017. The UAE said Thursday, Oct. 12, it will stop issuing new visas to North Korean laborers, becoming the latest Gulf country to cut back on ties to Pyongyang.
The United Arab Emirates said Thursday it would stop issuing new visas to North Korean workers, becoming the latest Gulf country to limit Pyongyang’s ability to evade sanctions and raise money abroad amid tensions with the U.S.
A statement by the UAE Foreign Ministry did not address the hundreds of North Korean laborers already working in the Emirates. A call to the UAE’s Embassy in Washington was not immediately returned.
The statement said the UAE would pull its non-resident ambassador to North Korea as well as stop North Koreans from opening new businesses in the Emirates, a federation of seven sheikhdoms on the Arabian Peninsula that is a staunch U.S. ally. [Associated Press]
You can read more at the link, but it just makes you wonder why the US government did not put this type of pressure on these governments before to cut ties?
Army Chief of Staff Gen. Jang Jun-gyu speaks during a send-off ceremony for the 11th batch of South Korean troops in the United Arab Emirates (UAE) at the Special Warfare Command in southern Seoul on July 19, 2016. Since 2011, the UAE has been home to some 150 troops charged with training UAE special forces and conducting joint military drills. Their unit is known as “Ahk,” an Arabic word meaning “brother.” (Yonhap)
