유엔 전문가 패널 "북한 무기수출회사, 이란서 활동 계속"<br /><br />International sanctions on North Korea and its nuclear weapons program don't appear to have stopped the regime from selling its arms overseas, importing large amounts of oil, or exporting coal.<br />Our Kim Bo-kyoung dives into how the regime has got around the sanctions.<br />An independent panel of experts monitoring UN sanctions issued an interim report on Monday local time... showing that despite sanctions, North Korea is still selling weapons to Iran.<br />North Korea's weapons export company KOMID has been included on the UN sanctions list since 2009,.... yet a representative of KOMID is reported to be still working in Iran.<br />North Korea is known to use the firm to export equipment for ballistic missiles and conventional weapons.<br />The report also said that North Korea is importing more refined oil than the 500-thousand barrels a year allowed under UN sanctions.<br />The North is reported to have imported between 600-thousand and 1-point-6 million barrels of refined oil from Russia and China in the first five months of this year alone, something which both Beijing and Moscow have denied.<br />North Korea has also been continuing its illegal maritime coal exports, and several ship-to-ship coal transfers have been spotted on satellite images.<br />One panel member also said Pyeongyang illegally exported coal 33 times between the start of January and May 7th this year.<br />The regime temporarily stopped exporting coal between late January and early March when COVID-19 was the most severe,... but resumed exports in late March.<br />The report also says that North Korea might have developed miniaturized nuclear devices to fit on the warheads of its ballistic missiles.<br />The panel believes the North's six nuclear tests have made such miniaturization possible.<br />One country even assessed that North Korea may seek to further develop miniaturization for multiple warhead systems.<br />Kim Bo-kyoung, Arirang News.<br />
