North Korea made $200m flouting sanctions, UN told

[JI7]

Source: bbc

North Korea earned nearly $200m (£141m) last year by exporting banned commodities in breach of international sanctions, a UN report says.

The confidential report by a panel of experts said several countries including China, Russia and Malaysia had failed to stop the illegal exports.

It said there was evidence of military co-operation with Syria and Myanmar.

The report said several unnamed multinational oil companies were being investigated for their alleged role in supplying petroleum products to North Korea.

It said shipments of coal had been delivered to China, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam in breach of sanctions using "a combination of multiple evasion techniques, routes and deceptive tactics".

Read more: http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-42928348

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Has Trump criticized Russia for this ?

[Scarsdale]

1. How many millions has

our own "dear leader" made, flaunting the rules of his job? He does it just for himself and his useless "kids".

[bullimiami]

2. 200m is not hugely significant in the scale of a country.

Even with NKs tiny 12b gdp.

Note SK has a 1.4t gdp.

[keithbvadu2]

3. Dubya allowed NK to sell and ship SCUD missiles to Yemen.