Marise Payne (NSW, Liberal Party, Minister for Defence) Share this | Hansard source

We welcome, in particular, the unanimous decision of the UN Security Council to impose stronger sanctions that implement a full ban on North Korea's export of coal, iron, lead and seafood. North Korea has, as has become the case, responded with military threat to that resolution.

In support of international efforts on North Korea, under our own autonomous sanctions regime, Australia will also apply targeted financial sanctions and further travel bans on several additional individuals and seven specific entities. They will target North Korea's extractive industries and its vessels. Our measures do add to the international pressure on North Korea, and they complement the resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council and the other autonomous sanctions of our partners. We call on all countries, as the Prime Minister and the foreign minister have done, to redouble their efforts to implement unanimously agreed UN Security Council resolutions and sanctions against North Korea to impress upon it the unsustainability of its current path. (Time expired)