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Pocketbook Policing; Washington has finally found a strategy that is putting real pressure on the regime--going after its sources of cash, all across the world.
Byline: Christian Caryl (With Mark Hosenball in Washington, George Wehrfritz in Taipei, B.J. Lee in Seoul, and Akiko Kashiwagi in Tokyo)
Swiss businessman and Asian-art collector Jakob Steiger never figured in headlines before last month. But his low profile ended with a bang when the U.S. Treasury announced that it was imposing sanctions against his firm, Kohas AG, for acting as a "technology broker" for the North Korean military. The Bush administration claims that the company, based in the university town of Fribourg, is half-owned by a North Korean firm that was named on a previous U.S. blacklist of entities suspected of involvement in "the proliferation of ...
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