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House votes to boost North Korea sanctions

By Joel Gehrke

Published May 4, 2017 6:32pm ET

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House votes to boost North Korea sanctions — The sanctions bill sharpens the warning against collaborating with North Korea that Secretary of State Rex Tillerson issued last week at a special meeting of the United Nations Security Council. (AP Photo/Wong Maye-E) | Wong Maye-E

House lawmakers passed new sanctions legislation on Thursday designed to undercut North Korea’s economy by cracking down on the network of banks and industries that help it avoid western sanctions.

“If we shut down their economy, they can’t move forward with their [nuclear weapons program] program,” House Foreign Affairs Committee chairman Ed Royce, R-Calif., said Thursday on Fox.

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