[Photo] Vice Minister Kim Hong-gyun Announcing North Korea Sanctions

Amid rising tensions on the Korean Peninsula due to North Korea's claim of a 'South Korean drone intrusion into Pyongyang' and the demolition of the inter-Korean connecting road, on the 16th at the Ministry of Foreign Affairs building in Jongno, Seoul, Kim Hong-kyun, First Vice Minister of Foreign Affairs, along with Kurt Campbell, U.S. Deputy Secretary of State, and Masataka Okano, Deputy Secretary-General of Japan's Ministry of Foreign Affairs, announced measures related to sanctions against North Korea. Photo by Jo Yong-jun.