The Japanese Government on Thursday published further evidence of ongoing ship-to-ship (STS) transfers involving North Korean vessels in violation of existing UN Security Council (UNSC) resolutions against the country.

The transfer appears to have taken place on the afternoon of January 18 in the East China Sea around 410 kilometers off the coast of Shanghai, Tokyo said.

While the Japanese Ministry of Defense could not identify the name or nationality of one of the ships involved, it asserted that the North Korean vessel was the An San 1.

“Judging from the fact that the two vessels lay alongside each other