Anchor: South Korea adds yet more North Korean companies and business representatives to its list of unilateral sanctions.
Barry Welsh has more. 
 
Report: South Korea has added 20 North Korean organizations and 12 individuals to its sanctions blacklist in response to the North's recent launch of an intercontinental ballistic missile. 
 
The list, which will take effect on Monday, includes 20 North Korean banks and shipping companies including Rason International Commercial Bank.
 
The latest list, which comes ahead of President Moon Jae-in's China visit, also includes 12 North Korean nationals working as representatives of North Korean organizations abroad, including  Kim Su-kwang, a North Korean intelligence agent based in Belarus.
 
A Seoul official said that the listed entities and individuals are accused of being involved in illegal trade to fund the North's missile program.
 
The sanctions will freeze any assets held in South Korea and ban them from doing business with South Korea starting Monday.  
 
These are Seoul's second unilateral sanctions against Pyongyang since the launch of the Moon Jae-in government and come after the North fired its most advanced Hwasong-15 ICBM on November 29th.
 
Seoul previously put 18 North Korean individuals on its blacklist in November.
 
However, the new sanctions are considered a symbolic move to show Seoul's commitment to keeping up with global sanctions against North Korea given that all inter-Korean trade remains suspended since the South's economic sanctions in 2010 and the shutdown of the Gaeseong Industrial Complex in 2016.

After the measures were announced, the Unification Ministry said it will continue to exert efforts to peacefully resolve the North Korean nuclear issue by getting Pyongyang to engage in dialogue through sanctions and pressure.
Barry Welsh, KBS World Radio News.