The Treasury Department has blocked from dealing with the U.S. 10 foreign companies and six individuals in response to their involvement in activities that are deemed to support North Korea’s efforts to develop nuclear and ballistic missile programs.

The agency’s actions seek to comply with the resolution enacted by the United Nations Security Council on Aug. 5 as a measure against North Korea’s continued ballistic missile tests, the Treasury said Tuesday.

“Treasury will continue to increase pressure on North Korea by targeting those who support the advancement of nuclear and ballistic missile programs, and isolating them from the American financial system,” said Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin.

The department’s office of foreign assets control designated two China-based companies, a Russian company and its director for their links to enterprises and activities that support North Korea’s weapons of mass destruction development programs.

Three Chinese firms, two Singapore-based companies, three Russian individuals and a Chinese business executive were also named for their participation in activities that back North Korea’s coal and oil trade.

OFAC also designated two companies and an individual for their involvement in the exportation of workers from North Korea.

The Defense Department‘s office of inspector general has called on DoD to develop strategies to address budgetary and personnel management issues under a program that offers military support to U.S. allies in Europe.

The OIG said in a report published Tuesday the European Reassurance Initiative establishes new requirements for the U.S. European Command without authorizing an increase in personnel.

ERI is funded under overseas contingency operations appropriations that are usually planned for one year and do not align with DoD’s five-year Future Years Defense Program planning cycle, according to the report.

This funding arrangement may affect the capacity of EUCOM and Operation Atlantic Resolve countries to sustain ERI’s support for allied and partner military forces, the OIG reported.

OAR countries include Poland, Bulgaria, Romania, Lithuania, Estonia and Latvia.

Auditors also found that OAR countries have yet to develop procedures or transportation infrastructure to support the timely deployment of U.S., allied and partner-nation forces.

U.S. agreements with OAR nations on infrastructure use do not have clear guidelines for facility access, sustainment and development, the OIG noted.

Such infrastructure challenges exist partly due to OAR participants’ lack of movement agreements with other NATO countries as well as insufficient experience in managing military convoys and equipment owned by multiple forces.

The report also revealed that EUCOM does not have specific metrics to assess the impact of ERI initiatives on allied and partner nations’ training, infrastructure and military capacity-building activities, which will make it difficult for DoD to track the progress of OAR countries.

The OIG urged the Joint Staff director to evaluate whether EUCOM and its subordinate commands have enough personnel resources to perform ERI missions.

The oversight body also called on the office of the deputy secretary of defense to formulate ways to change the ERI budgeting cycle to align it with participating countries’ training and capacity-building efforts.

The Government Accountability Office has called on the Defense Department to analyze its performance metric data on foreign military sales programs in order to determine the causes of unmet objectives.

GAO made the recommendation after it found that DoD still falls short of meeting the 85 percent goal for timeliness when it comes to sending a letter of offer and acceptance to the partner country for clearance, the office said in a report published Tuesday.

The report also showed that DoD takes more time to assess and approve FMS requests and does not collect data with regard to the delivery of FMS items or services to country recipients.

GAO also offered recommendations for the Defense Security Cooperation Agency that oversees FMS programs on behalf of DoD and these include the development of a workforce plan and workload measures as well as the need to facilitate data collection on the delivery of goods and services to partner countries.

Defense Secretary James Mattis has said he wants the Defense Department to provide an account of the total number of U.S. ground troops in Afghanistan before the agency fields additional service personnel to the South Asian country, Defense News reported Tuesday.

“The first thing I have to do is ‘level the bubble,’ and account for everybody that is on the ground there now, the idea being that we’re not going to have different pockets that we are accounting for,” said Mattis, an inductee into Executive Mosaic‘s Wash100 for 2017.

“I’ll tell you what the total number is, and there is a number that I am authorized to go up to.”

The White House authorized Mattis in June to establish troop levels for Afghanistan but capped the total number of additional ground forces to be deployed at 3,900.

His remarks came a day after President Donald Trump unveiled a conditions-based strategy for South Asia that aims to advance use of military power, economic capability and diplomacy to ensure U.S. security and safety of allies.

Mattis told reporters Tuesday in Iraq that he has asked Gen. Joseph Dunford, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, to draft a plan on how to carry out the president’s South Asian strategy, the report added.