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Treasury looks to choke off funding for N. Korean weapons

The Treasury Department continued to ramp up its work on illicit finance Monday, announcing that a top undersecretary would travel to China to work on limiting North Korea’s access to the global financial infrastructure.

The department said Monday it would send Undersecretary for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence Stuart Levey to Hong Kong and China to work with officials there to “further the Administration