U.S., ASEAN focus on full sanctions enforcement on North Korea

Top diplomats of the United States and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations held talks Friday in Singapore, at which Washington is expected to urge ASEAN members to fully enforce U.N. sanctions on North Korea so as to compel it to abandon its nuclear weapons.U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo met his ASEAN counterparts as Pyongyang continues to find ways to evade sanctions through means such as U.N.-prohibited ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and the sending of North Korean guest workers to some countries to earn hard currency.Pompeo is likely to make a similar request wh…READ FULL ARTICLE