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[Black_Beer_Man]

If you wire a significant amount of money to your home country, the banks in Japan have to ask you if the money is going to support North Korea or Iran.

Okay. I can understand how Japan would not want the DPRK to get any of its money.

However, isn't Japan indirectly supporting the DPRK by buying lots of stuff from China?

There's a rumor that China is contracting a lot of manufacturing work to North Korea (and then stamping "Made in China" on the package).

I want to do some digging around to see if this is true.

Anyway, some of the 100 yen stuff that you bought at Daiso may have been made in North Korea.

[kzjohn]

[Black_Beer_Man]

According to the 2nd news source on your link, China buys 2.67 billion dollars of goods from North Korea. Therefore, China has serious influence over North Korea.

Japan's giving business to North Korea's largest trading partner, China, and then telling foreigners and Japanese people not to send money to North Korea seems hypocritical to me.

[timothypfox]

I see your point, but it is better to do a small thing than nothing at all. It would be better for the Japanese government to do much more on the sanctions end. But how would you ever be able to unplug from China...?

[kzjohn]

US-China trade in good and services was $659 billion in 2015. Japan-China was $303B. I'll let you figure out what fraction of a percent of either of those (or the total) that $2.67B is.

And since China started cutting them off in April, 2016 will be far less.