丹东银行被禁止与美国金融系统往来

The US Treasury department has severed a small Chinese bank’s ties with the US financial system over its alleged support for North Korea’s nuclear weapons programme.

美国财政部切断了中国一家小型银行与美国金融系统的联系，理由是该银行据称支持朝鲜的核武计划。

The measures against Bank of Dandong come days before Donald Trump’s first official visit to China and indicate that questions over China’s relationship with North Korea will continue to dog the relationship between the US president and his Chinese counterpart Xi Jinping.

此次对丹东银行(Bank of Dandong)的制裁措施颁布于唐纳德?特朗普(Donald Trump)首次正式访华数日前，显示出中朝关系相关问题仍将阻碍美中两国首脑的关系。

The Treasury’s financial crimes unit said in a statement late on Thursday that the bank in Dandong, on China’s border with North Korea, had acted “as a conduit for illicit North Korean financial activity”.

美国财政部金融犯罪部门周四晚间发表声明称，位于中朝边境的丹东银行曾是“朝鲜非法金融活动的一条渠道”。

It accused the bank of performing millions of dollars of transactions for companies connected to North Korea’s ballistic missile and nuclear weapons programmes, as well as other companies that have been sanctioned by the UN.

该部门指责丹东银行为与朝鲜弹道导弹和核武器计划有关的公司，以及其他已受联合国制裁的公司进行了数百万美元的交易。

While the White House proposed the measures in June, the implementation comes as Mr Trump prepares for his first visit to China as head of state.

美国白宫是在在6月份提出该制裁措施的，不过其执行却是在特朗普上任后首次访华之前。

The new sanctions will bar any bank doing business in the US from conducting transactions with Bank of Dandong.

这一新的制裁将禁止任何在美国开展业务的银行与丹东银行进行交易。

“Today’s actions will better protect the US financial system from illicit schemes used by North Korea to evade sanctions and finance its weapons programmes,” Steven Mnuchin, Treasury secretary, said in a statement. “Banks and businesses worldwide should take note that they must be vigilant against attempts by North Korea to conduct illicit financing and trade.”

美国财政部部长史蒂文?姆努钦(Steven Mnuchin)在一份声明中表示：“此次行动将更好地保护美国金融体系免遭朝鲜非法计划利用，以逃避制裁和资助其武器计划。世界各地的银行和企业都应该注意，它们必须警惕朝鲜企图进行非法融资和贸易的行为。”

Documents provided by the Treasury claim that Bank of Dandong facilitated $786m in transactions through correspondent banks in the US between May 2012 and May 2015. About 17 per cent of those transactions, it says, were with companies linked to North Korean entities under sanctions from the US and UN.

据美国财政部提供的文件称，丹东银行在2012年5月至2015年5月期间通过美国的代理银行促成了7.86亿美元的交易。其中约17%的交易是与受美国和联合国制裁的朝鲜实体有联系的企业进行的。