North Korea continues to sell prohibited goods in contravention of United Nations sanctions, a report from the UN Panel of Experts (PoE) seen by Kyodo News reads.

The DPRK is still able to move weapons and ammunition, according to the Tokyo-based news outlet, while natural resource trade remains a source of income for the regime, despite measures put in place in March last year intended to limit the North’s revenues from coal.

“The DPRK is flouting sanctions through trade in prohibited goods with evasion techniques that are increasing in scale, scope and sophistication,” the Kyodo News article says, quoting the PoE report.

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