Multiple North Korean-manufactured machine guns were seized by a French frigate crew in March of 2016 following the interdiction of a sailing boat bound for Somalia, a recent UN report has revealed.

The stateless dhow – a small sailboat – had come from Iran, and was found with a cache of weapons on board by the FS Provence as it made its way towards Puntland.

The UN’s Somalia and Eritrea Monitoring Group (SEMG) was subsequently given access to the cache and discovered North Korean manufactured weapons, according to its annual report submitted on November 2.

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