The UN North Korea sanctions committee has scaled up a list of conventional arms dual-use items whose supply, sale or transfer to North Korea is wholly barred in compliance with Resolution 2371, adopted early last month in the wake of the North's ICBM tests, a US broadcaster reported Tuesday.

Sebastiano Cardi, chair of the sanctions committee, submitted the new list to the UN Secretariat on Sept. 5, which in turn, made it public recently, Voice of America said.

Notable is that the new list includes a great number of new dual-use items which only people with expertise can understand, the broadcaster said. The list contains eight categories, including "Special materials and related equipment" and "Materials processing equipment."
 

Among the new items are materials composed of aromatic polyetherimides, which have a glass transition temperature exceeding 290 degrees Celsius, and filamentary materials that have a melting point exceeding 1,649 C in an inert environment, according to the broadcaster.

The list is an update of a conventional arms dual-use list which the sanctions panel presented to the Security Council in December pertinent to Resolution 2321, adopted in November against the North's fifth nuclear test in September.

UN member states are required to embargo the items to Pyongyang upon their announcement. (Yonhap)