BY DIPANJAN
ROY CHAUDHURY, ET BUREAU | UPDATED: APR 27, 2017, 11.59 P
NEW DELHI: India has decided to supply only food
and medicines to Pyongyang, adhering to UN Security Council sanctions that
prevent the trade of any item North Korea could otherwise use to add to its
military's operational capabilities. Through an official gazette dated April
21, the Narendra Modi government has barred any Indian citizen or firm from
supplying to Pyongyang arms, any nuclear related material or technology, or any
other material that would enhance North Korea's ballistic-missile capabilities.
Besides,
the gazette bans all military or police training to North Korean official in
India. India has maintained low-key diplomatic ties with North Korea over the
years, and New Delhi’s interactions have been largely restricted to providing
food supplies.
In 2015, India hosted the North Korean Foreign Minister in an
attempt to deliver the Pyongyang leadership a message to delink from Pakistan's
nuclear programme. Hence, New Delhi's current action is significant amid the
rising US pressure on North Korea. The gazette also suggests the expulsion of
any North Korean government representative found violating the UN sanctions.
Training of North Korean individuals in advanced
physics, aeronautical engineering, and nuclear engineering in India has also
been banned. Indian nationals have also been advised not to register ships in
North Korea.
According to a copy of the "Implementation
of Security Council Resolution on Democratic People’s Republic of Korea Order,
2017" available with ET, the government has barred the hosting of
trainers, advisors, or other officials for the purpose of military-,
paramilitary- or police-related training. The Gazette further prohibits
bunkering services, such as provision of fuel or supplies, or other servicing
of vessels, to North Korean vessels if there are reasonable grounds to believe
that they are carrying items prohibited by the UN resolutions.
The
gazette says that the government shall have the powers to “prevent the direct
or indirect supply, sale, transfer or export, through its territories or by its
nationals…to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, of (i) any battle
tanks, armoured combat vehicles, large calibre artillery systems, combat
aircraft, attack helicopters, warships, missiles or missile systems as defined
for the purpose of the United Nations Register on Conventional Arms, or related
material including spare parts.
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