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The documents Reuters met on Tuesday showed the United States called for the UN Security Council to blacklist 10 vessels as it circumvented North Korea (North Korea). South Korea's president hinted at a curtailed military exercise to ease tensions until next year's Olympic Winter Games.

The documents said that the 10 vessels had been carrying out ship-to-ship oil refueling activities to North Korea or transporting North Korean coal in violation of the United Nations sanctions against Pyongyang's nuclear and missile programs.

If the 15 member states of the North Korean sanctions Committee of the Security Council do not object to any objections until Thursday afternoon, these ships will be blacklisted, which means they are required to be banned from entering Hong Kong.

North Korea is currently embargoed by the UN arms embargo and the UN Security Council barresses North Korea's export trade in minerals such as coal, textiles, seafood and iron ore to cut off the funding sources for Pyongyang's missile and nuclear programs.

South Korean President Yoo-kwong said on Tuesday that he is willing to reduce the joint military exercises to ease the tensions before the Olympic Winter Games in South Korea next year.

"Korea and the United States have the potential to assess the possibility of postponing the exercise," he told NBC News. "I have already made such a suggestion to the United States that the United States is currently assessing it, but this depends on the performance of North Korea."