SINGAPORE -- Singapore's recent ban on all commercial trade with North Korea, as the international community seeks to cool leader Kim Jong Un's nuclear ambitions. The move is in line with the increasingly tough steps that other Southeast Asian nations are taking to isolate Pyongyang.
"[W]ith effect from 8 November 2017, Singapore will prohibit all commercially traded goods (exchanged for money or barter traded) from or to the Democratic People's Republic of Korea," Singapore Customs said in a circular to traders and agents issued Nov 7. The embargo covers all goods that are "imported, exported, transshipped or brought in transit through Singapore," the circular said.
