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That appears to be a lax enforcement by China of U.N. sanctions aimed at curbing Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear program under which countries are required to inspect cargo destined to or coming from North Korea that is within their territory or being transported on North Korean-flagged vessels.<\/p>\n
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The annual report to the U.N. Security Council by independent sanctions monitors said North Korea continued to flout council resolutions \u201cthrough illicit maritime exports of commodities, notably coal and sand\u201d in 2019, earning Pyongyang hundreds of millions of dollars.<\/p>\n
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A U.N. Security Council diplomat, speaking to Reuters on condition of anonymity, said China has the capacity to stop sanctions busting by its ally North Korea but \u201cis simply choosing not to implement the Security Council resolutions.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\u201cAccording to a Security Council member, Chinese warships have received notification in real time on multiple occasions of vessels entering its territorial waters who have been observed to be in violation of the U.N. Security Council resolutions,\u201d the diplomat said.<\/p>\n
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China\u2019s policing of neighbor North Korea\u2019s adherence to U.N. sanctions, first put in place in 2006, is considered crucial to the effectiveness of the measures, spearheaded by the United States and unanimously adopted by the Security Council.<\/p>\n
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Reuters first reported in February that the sanctions monitors report found North Korea continued to enhance its nuclear and ballistic missile programs last year.<\/p>\n
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CHINA SAYS IMPLEMENTS SANCTIONS<\/strong><\/p>\n <\/p>\n When asked if China had received the notifications and acted on them, the office of the spokesperson at the Chinese foreign ministry said in a statement on Thursday that China implemented U.N. sanctions.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n \u201cChina has always earnestly fulfilled its international obligations and dealt with relevant issues in accordance with the resolutions,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The office said: \u201cThe report clearly states that this is information provided by \u2018a member state\u2019 and not the opinion of the expert group.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n North Korea\u2019s mission to the United Nations in New York did not immediately respond to a request for comment.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A second photo from the U.N. report shows ten North Korean vessels anchored in Chinese waters on Sept. 15 last year near the port of Lianyungang. The photos were provided to the U.N. sanctions monitors by an unidentified member state.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The monitors reported that North Korea conducts ship-to-ship transfers of illicit cargo such as coal, which has been banned since 2017 in a bid to cut off funding to Pyongyang.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n More photos in the report show floating cranes supporting \u201cillicit ship-to-ship coal transfers.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Under U.N. sanctions imposed in 2017 all countries were also required to repatriate North Koreans working abroad by the end of last year to stop them earning foreign currency for leader Kim Jong Un\u2019s government.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n A senior U.S. official in January accused China of failing to send home all North Korean workers.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n The United States has said it believed Pyongyang was earning some $500 million a year from nearly 100,000 workers abroad, 50,000 of whom were in China.<\/p>\n gCaptain<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" That appears to be a lax enforcement by China of U.N. sanctions aimed at curbing Pyongyang\u2019s nuclear program under which countries are required to inspect cargo destined to or coming from North Korea that is within their territory or being transported on North Korean-flagged vessels. The annual report to the U.N. Security Council by independent …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":8231,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[4974,4815,777,949,1416,3954,137,1082,1241,2281],"class_list":["post-8230","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-marine-world","tag-busting","tag-capture","tag-chinese","tag-korea","tag-north","tag-photos","tag-report","tag-sanctions","tag-ships","tag-waters"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8230"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8230\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media\/8231"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8230"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8230"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.al-sindbad.net\/rest\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8230"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}