DPRK has said it is no longer bound by a commitment to halt nuclear and missile testing.
The 67-page report to the UN Security Council North Korea sanctions committee, which is due to be made public next month, comes as the United States tries to revive stalled denuclearisation talks with North Korea. North Korea has been subjected to UN sanctions since 2006. They have been strengthened by the 15-member Security Council over the years in a bid to cut off funding for Pyongyang’s nuclear and ballistic missile programs.The sanctions monitors said that in a fresh bid to evade sanctions, North Korea had started to export millions of tonnes of commodities – banned since 2017 – using barges.
The unidentified member state told the monitors that barges had delivered coal directly to three ports in China’s Hangzhou Bay and also to facilities along the Yangtze river. In Beijing on Tuesday, a foreign ministry spokesman said China was concerned about the leak of the report, which he said should be strictly confidential, as it had not yet been officially released.The sanctions monitors reported that North Korea continued to illicitly import refined petroleum through ship-to-ship transfers at sea and direct deliveries.
“There can be little doubt that UN sanctions have had unintended effects on the humanitarian situation and aid operations, although access to data and evidence is limited and there is no reliable methodology that disambiguates UN sanctions from other factors.”
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