Reporters get into squabble with businessman
Taiwan News
Date: 2018/02/24
By: Matthew Strong,Taiwan News, Staff Writer
TAIPEI (Taiwan News) – The Shilin District Prosecutors Office is opening an investigation
A North Korean ship. (By Wikimedia Commons)
into Chang Yung-yuan (張永源), the only individual named in a new list of sanctions by the United States against North Korea.
On Thursday, U.S. President Donald Trump and the Treasury announced a list of mostly companies which would be targeted because they had allegedly violated United Nations sanctions against the communist country.
Chang, the only individual on the list, was reportedly suspected of supplying North Korea with coal.
Since his company was registered in Taipei’s Neihu District, the Shilin District Prosecutors Office opened a case against him, but was not planning to question him for the time being, the Liberty Times reported. [FULL STORY]
