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The trade in pianos highlights the challenges Japan faces in enforcing sanctions in the context of complex global supply chains.”

Since [Trump] was last president, the sanctions community at large -- public and private -- have learned a lot about how to target a country's oil revenue and go after the broader infrastructure, largely from the experience with Russia's own shadow fleet.”

Currently America has a very limited missile defence system aimed at North Korea,” says Sidharth Kaushal, a research fellow at the Royal United Services Institute. Now, he says, the Trump administration “wants to explore everything from space-based sensors to space-based interceptors for a fully-fledged defence for the homeland”.