UN Prohibits 32 Items From Being Sold to North Korea to Stifle Development of Weapons of Mass Destruction

L: The UN Security Council meeting in New York on Sept. 28, 2017. (Timothy A. Clary/AFP/Getty Images); R: A truck returns from the North Korean town of Sinuiju to the Chinese border city of Dandong, in China's northeast Liaoning province on Sept. 5, 2017. Baker/AFP/Getty Images

The United Nations Security Council has added 32 items to the list of goods prohibited from being sold to North Korea in order to dampen its ambitions to build weapons of mass destruction.

The banned items—materials, equipment, goods, and technology—are considered “dual-use,” meaning they could be used both for benign purposes as well as for development of weapons.