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North Korean firm planned $3.5M sale of military equipment to Nigeria: UN report

Deal would be major sanctions breach, but expert says it’s ‘far from clear’ whether negotiations ever occurred

A North Korean company linked to the Korean People’s Army was planning to sell millions of dollars in military equipment to Nigeria last year, a forthcoming U.N. report states, a transaction that would have likely violated multiple international sanctions.

Haegeumgang Trading Corporation — a “weapons trading entity” according to the Panel of Experts report — planned to broker a $3.5 million arms deal sale between North Korea and Nigeria, an unnamed member state told the Panel.

U.N. sanctions investigators have linked Haegumgang to the African continent before. The DPRK firm was involved in the 2013 saleof man-portable air defense