Biden's DOJ Brags of Cutting Off Oil to ‘Pariah State’ North Korea

“U.S. Government Seizes Oil Tanker Used To Violate U.S. and UN Sanctions Against North Korea,” the Department of Justice announced in an April 23 press release. Three top DOJ officials—U.S. Attorney for the Southern District of New York Audrey Strauss, Assistant Attorney General for National Security John Demers, and Assistant Director-in-Charge of the FBI’s New York Field Office William Sweeney Jr.—announced to the press that a criminal complaint had just been filed for “conspiring to economic sanctions,” against the owner of an oil tanker stopped in Cambodia in 2020 when it was on its way to North Korea to deliver its cargo. The tanker is also now officially in U.S. possession. Strauss presented this act of ensuring North Korea is cut-off from any oil imports as some kind of humanitarian action because it sends the message that anyone who dares “to send money through the U.S. financial system in furtherance of [their] support for that pariah state … stands to lose both their liberty and their property.”