U.N. report: North Korea evading sanctions by buying oil, selling coal, hacking banks
WASHINGTON — North Korea is successfully evading United Nations sanctions with increasingly sophisticated methods, enabling the regime to import more oil, expand coal exports, sell weapons and hack into foreign banks, according to a report by a U.N. panel of experts.
North Korea"continues to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal," the report states.Hundreds died in 2011 tornadoes. When sirens blared this week, Alabamans were better prepared. Cargo jet crew lost control before crash that killed 3, recording suggests.
"It fooled these global regional commodity trading companies into supplying more than 57,000 barrels in a single shipment by a ship-to-ship transfer," Griffiths told NBC News.The report includes photos that show the large ship pulled alongside another vessel for the oil transfer, which had an estimated value of about $5.7 million, according to Griffiths.
The assessment from the U.N. panel underscores the challenge facing President Donald Trump after a summit in Hanoi last month that failed to produce progress and exposed sharp differences between Washington and Pyongyang.
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