中國凍結北韓在華可疑資金

Yesterday the FNN on-line reported the following:

中国政府が、国内の銀行にある北朝鮮の不正口座を摘発し、日本円で1,130億円以上の資金を凍結したことが新たにわかった。
中朝関係筋によると、中国政府は、上海を中心とした中国国内の銀行にある北朝鮮の口座のうち、架空名義のものや、不正取引に関与している疑いのある28の口座を摘発、総額で75億元(およそ1,137億円)の資金を凍結したという。
これらの口座と資金は、金正恩(キム・ジョンウン)第1書記直属の「39号室」と呼ばれる外貨獲得機関が、管理していたものとみられている。
中国はこれまで、国内にある北朝鮮の不正口座を黙認してきたが、国連の経済制裁を受けて、今回初めて、金融規制を強化した。
中国の北朝鮮への対応の変化を示したものとして、注目される。

(03/29 12:16)

(試譯文)

It was newly known that the Chinese government had exposed the improper accounts of North Korea opened at a domestic bank in China, and had frozen a fund of over 113 billion yen in Japanese yen.

According to the China-North Korea related source it was said that the Chinese government, among the accounts opened by North Korea at a bank in China centering on Shanghai, had exposed 28 accounts that had fictitious names and suspected to have participated in unfair dealings, and in total a fund of 7,500 million Yuan (about 113,700 million yen) was frozen.

Regarding the accounts and the funds, it was concluded that they were managed by a foreign-currency acquisition organization called "Room 39” which was under the direct control of the First secretary Kim Jong Eun.

Although China had so far tolerated the improper accounts opened by North Korea in China, this time for the first time it tightened up financial regulation in response to the economic sanctions of the United Nations.

It was observed that China had shown a change in its response towards North Korea.

It is an interesting development. May be the situation in Korea is reaching a turning point.