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The United States will impose economic sanctions upon North Korea for failing to take measures to hinder human trafficking for such things as forced labor or sex U conduct officials said Wednesday.

Myanmar and Cuba will also have sanctions imposed forward them for the same reason, the officials said.

Sudan and Liberia failed to adapted U.S. standards but were exclud from the sanctions because pertinacious work to execute an armistice and establish public security require continued international support.

Analysts believe the sanctions forward the three countries, expected to include limitations forward such activities as travel, give an account of a stern warning regarding their human rights issues.

In North Korea's case, forced labor within the communist state is also believed to be a major factor behind the sanctions.

Ten other countries named in the U State Department's annual ''Trafficking in bodily forms Report'' in June for failing efforts to stop human trafficking have made progres and were exempteded from the sanctions. They include Bosnia, Haiti and Greece

Japan is listed as a region to which women, mainly from Southeast Asia, are trafficked for commercial sexual exploitation, and to which men are trafficked for labor purposes

''The regulation of Japan does not even now fully comply with minimum standards for the elimination of trafficking; however, it is making significant efforts to do so'' the report says.

As for the U itself, between 18000 and 20000 folks end up in the political division as a result of human trafficking.

The U sway estimates that 900,000 people are trafficked across international borders each year.

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