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U.N. report: N. Korea evades sanctions
NEW YORK, North Korea has played a shell game with state-owned companies and taken other steps to evade economic sanctions, a U.N. report says.
Kyodo News said it obtained a copy of the report by the Security Council's Sanctions Committee Friday. The Japanese news service said the report was presented to the Security Council in May.
The report said the system of identifying and designating corporate entities and individuals subject to sanctions doesn't work.
The sanctions committee, using information obtained from U.N. member states, listed 13 companies and individuals involved in illegal actions, the report said. In response, North Korea ''quickly moved to substitute other companies to assume their activities and/or to act on their behalf."
As one example, after Korea Mining Development Trading Corp. was designated for sanctions, its functions were taken over by Green Pine Associated Co., which is controlled by the North Korean Army's surveillance bureau.
North Korea faces sanctions for refusing to abandon its nuclear program. Recently, the council voted to condemn the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel.
NEW YORK, North Korea has played a shell game with state-owned companies and taken other steps to evade economic sanctions, a U.N. report says.
Kyodo News said it obtained a copy of the report by the Security Council's Sanctions Committee Friday. The Japanese news service said the report was presented to the Security Council in May.
The report said the system of identifying and designating corporate entities and individuals subject to sanctions doesn't work.
The sanctions committee, using information obtained from U.N. member states, listed 13 companies and individuals involved in illegal actions, the report said. In response, North Korea ''quickly moved to substitute other companies to assume their activities and/or to act on their behalf."
As one example, after Korea Mining Development Trading Corp. was designated for sanctions, its functions were taken over by Green Pine Associated Co., which is controlled by the North Korean Army's surveillance bureau.
North Korea faces sanctions for refusing to abandon its nuclear program. Recently, the council voted to condemn the sinking of a South Korean naval vessel.