NKorea flouts sanctions through China shipping, says UN report | Malay Mail
Saturday, 18 Apr 2020 08:53 AM MYT
The annual report to the UN Security Council by sanctions experts went online and inexplicably disappeared later in the day, with the text itself noting China’s reservations about the findings. The panel, quoting data from an unspecified country, estimated that North Korea exported 3.7 million tons of coal between January and August last year, grossing around US$370 million .
As North Korea’s fleet is not known to include such barges, they are likely from China, with 47 shipments from May to August last year directly reaching ports on China’s Hangzhou Bay near the economic powerhouse of Shanghai, it said. China is North Korea’s primary political and economic ally and had backed UN sanctions out of frustration with Pyongyang’s nuclear and missile tests.
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