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North Korea has not stopped nuclear, missile program - confidential U.N. report

By Michelle Nichols

 

North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Pyongyang Trolley Bus Factory and the Bus Repair Factory in Pyongyang, North Korea in this photo released August 4, 2018 by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency. KCNA/ via REUTERS

 

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - North Korea has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs in violation of United Nations sanctions, according to a confidential U.N. report seen by Reuters on Friday.

 

The six-month report by independent experts monitoring the implementation of U.N. sanctions was submitted to the Security Council North Korea sanctions committee late on Friday.

 

"(North Korea) has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018," the experts wrote in the 149-page report.

 

The North Korean mission to the United Nations did not respond to a request for comment on the report.

 

The U.N report said North Korea is cooperating militarily with Syria and has been trying to sell weapons to Yemen's Houthis.

 

Pyongyang also violated a textile ban by exporting more than $100 million in goods between October 2017 and March 2018 to China, Ghana, India, Mexico, Sri Lanka, Thailand, Turkey and Uruguay, the report said.

 

The report comes as Russia and China suggest the Security Council discuss easing sanctions after U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong Un met for the first time in June and Kim pledged to work toward denuclearization.

 

The United States and other council members have said there must be strict enforcement of sanctions until Pyongyang acts.

 

The U.N. experts said illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products in international waters had "increased in scope, scale and sophistication." They said a key North Korean technique was to turn off a ship's tracking system, but that they were also physically disguising ships and using smaller vessels.

 

The Security Council has unanimously sanctioned North Korea since 2006 in a bid to choke off funding for Pyongyang's nuclear and ballistic missile programs, banning exports including coal, iron, lead, textiles and seafood, and capping imports of crude oil and refined petroleum products.

 

The experts said "prohibited military cooperation with the Syrian Arab Republic has continued unabated." They said North Korean technicians engaged in ballistic missile and other banned activities have visited Syria in 2011, 2016 and 2017.

 

The report said that experts were investigating efforts by the North Korean Ministry of Military Equipment and Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation (KOMID) to supply conventional arms and ballistic missiles to Yemen's Houthi group.

 

A country, which was not identified, showed the experts a July 13, 2016 letter from a Houthi leader inviting the North Koreans to meet in Damascus "to discuss the issue of the transfer of technology and other matters of mutual interest," according to the report.

 

The experts said that the effectiveness of financial sanctions was being systematically undermined by "deceptive practices" of North Korea.

 

 

-- © Copyright Reuters 2018-08-04

[from the home of CC]

Trump's lack of foreign policy skills and refusing to listen to seasoned analysts is coming back to bite him big time.

[Jingthing]

Cat's out the bag. "trump" is accepting that NK will be a nuclear power. It may have been unavoidable anyway, but enough with the farce. 

[dunroaming]

Only Trump and a few of his dimmer followers believed that Kim would really stop developing his nuclear capabilities.

[tomacht8]

Trumpy boy, the big negotiator. 

He may be good at squeezing and extorting a working group of his bricklayers to cut their wages,
but on the world stage he is stupider than a slice of bread.

[Tug]

Got played by an asian hillbillie the dude is so deeply unqualified on so many levels to be president let’s just pray we get through this fiasco without permanent damage

[chickenslegs]

I'm no fan of Trump, but this UN report was compliled over a six month period - Trump only met with Kim in June, so most (if not all) the information is from prior to that meeting.

 

Incidents mentioned in the article, that occurred prior to June 2018 can also not be used to signify that Trump's negotiations with Kim have failed.

 

 

 

 

[tomacht8]

In the North Korea conflict, you have to work with the world community.
Simple team work.
Best all states together against a Provokanteur.
Who, completely stupid, fired Missiles over Japan.
The orange clown had his solo performance.
He's just too stupid to realize that it's for meaningful positiv progress,
a shared world community Needs.
Hopefully, the Americans will quickly drop that fool.
Global warming?
The orange clown does not even understand the word: global warming.
In southern Europe yesterday, the highest heat values have been reported since 100 years.

Edited August 4, 2018 by tomacht8

[baboon]

Look at the OP. Why would the DPRK or any other country on earth agree to quietly die in the face of sanctions?

I wonder which country was not identified and why they were not identified. Not a free and open country, then. Or manipulating a situation to their own advantage, in which case why should other nations not do the same, including ones we find unpalatable?

Edited August 4, 2018 by baboon

[4MyEgo]

You could have fooled me, I think its time to buy gold as soon as the markets open come Monday ?️‍♂️

Edited August 5, 2018 by 4MyEgo

[wayned]

They never agreed to denuclearize!  The document that was signed by Kim and Trump said that they agreed  "to discuss denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula".  Before the meeting in Singapore, Bolton said that they would follow the "Syria Model".  They came back and said that they would not agree to unilateral denuclearization, the "Syria Model", and if that was the US's stance there would be no reason for a meeting.  Trump quickly locked Bolton in the broom closest and convinced Kim to go on with the meeting.  No one knows what was actually agreed upon during the one on one meeting and I doubt that Trump even remembered 10 minutes after the meeting was over.  He signed the agreement and then held a news conference where he said that Kim had agreed to denuclearization which he hadn't.  Pompeo then went to NK with the "Libya Model" changed to the "North Korean Model" and tried to ram that down their throats with no luck.  NK said that they wanted to start discussions on a Korean Peace Treaty but Pompeo rejected the idea.  NK has started to demolish some facilities and return some US solders killed in the war, but they never agreed to halt the development of their nuclear program.  NK wants talks on a Koren Peace Agreement and some guarantees that they will get something from the US in return for anything they do like reduction of sanctions in a tic for tack basis. Trump and his crew strikes again!!!