Nation’s maritime scheme aided North Korea

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Erin Handley

 

New details of Cambodia’s complicity in North Korea’s illicit shipment of 30,000 rocket grenades have come to light in a recent UN Security Council report, made public this week.

 

A panel of experts investigated North Korea’s “intensified” and “unprecedented” nuclear missile tests and found the communist nation was “flouting sanctions through trade in prohibited goods, with evasion techniques that are increasing in scale, scope and sophistication”. Hoisting Cambodia’s flag was one such technique.

 

The Kingdom’s lucrative “flags of convenience” scheme covered a raft of sea crimes, from human trafficking to drug smuggling, and was scuppered shortly after Egyptian authorities uncovered a huge North Korean arms haul aboard a Cambodian-flagged vessel.

 

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[FitnessHealthTravel]

If there's money in it...

[dabhand]

1 hour ago, FitnessHealthTravel said:

If there's money in it...

Yes, just like Malaysia. Who found that if you lay down with dogs you catch fleas. In their case it was electronics with UMNO connections.