MOSCOW, Oct. 16 (Xinhua) -- Russian President Vladimir Putin has signed a decree to impose a number of bans on the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (DPRK) in compliance with the United Nations (UN) Security Council Resolution 2321, Russia's legal document portal published Monday.
Russia will, most notably among other measures, suspend scientific and technical cooperation with individuals and institutions representing the DPRK, according to the 39-page decree.
On Nov. 30, 2016, the UN Security Council unanimously adopted the Resolution 2321 in response to Pyongyang's fifth nuclear test on Sept. 9.
In the UN document, the 15-nation council decided that the DPRK should not supply, sell or transfer coal, iron and iron ore from its territory, but excluded transactions for livelihood purposes.
The council set an upper limit on the DPRK's coal exporting and banned the sale of copper, nickel, silver, zinc and statues from the DPRK.
