North Korea Earned an Estimated $200 Million from Banned Exports

For me there is absolutely nothing surprising about this news:

North Korea violated United Nations sanctions to earn nearly $200 million in 2017 from banned commodity exports, according to a confidential report by independent U.N. monitors, which also accused Pyongyang of supplying weapons to Syria and Myanmar.

The report to a U.N. Security Council sanctions committee, seen by Reuters on Friday, said North Korea had shipped coal to ports, including in Russia, China, South Korea, Malaysia and Vietnam, mainly using false paperwork that showed countries such as Russia and China as the coal origin, instead of North Korea.

The 15-member council has unanimously boosted sanctions on North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke funding for Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

“The DPRK (North Korea) is already flouting the most recent resolutions by exploiting global oil supply chains, complicit foreign nationals, offshore company registries and the international banking system,” the U.N. monitors wrote in the 213-page report.  [Reuters]

You can read more at the link, but announcing that North Korea is violating UN sanctions is like saying the sky is blue.

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Flyingsword
Flyingsword
6 years ago

Yet commie moon welcomes them with open arms. Sanctions ineffective is no penalties or consequences for violating them.

J6Junkie
J6Junkie
6 years ago

I guess the upside is that it’s millions and not billions.

setnaffa
setnaffa
6 years ago
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