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North Korea sanctions evasion efforts detailed in UN’s latest PoE report

Report shows a wide range of violations due to poor enforcement, foreign intermediaries and evasion

A UN panel of Experts (PoE) tasked with monitoring the implementation of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions imposed on North Korea published its annual report on Tuesday. 

The investigations and information within the report reveal wide-ranging sanctions violation and evasion activity by North Korea and third-party facilitators. 

NK News has highlighted ten features of the latest annual PoE report, which covers the period from February 2, 2018, to February 1, 2019, and provided short summaries of certain sanctions evasion activities.

SHIP-TO-SHIP TRANSFERS OF OIL AND COAL

In December of 2017, the UNSC unanimously passed Resolution 2397, which included measures that