The customs in the port of Rotterdam, a container with a minimum of 90,000 bottles of vodka for North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and his military intercepts. The container was in a ship hidden under the fuselage of an aircraft.
On the eve of the summit in which Kim Jong-un, Us president Trump speaks, in the week in which he its population on rations, the discovery of 3000 boxes, each with 30 bottles of Russian vodka salient. The customs took the container last Friday in attachment, in command of the ministry of Foreign Affairs. The vodka was from Russia.
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From a reconstruction by this newspaper show that the customs in the port of Rotterdam, the beginning of the last week of alarm crashed over the container on board the ship Nebula of the Chinese shipping company Cosco Shipping. Of the North Korean leader Kim Jong-un is known that he has plenty of luxury imports, such as televisions, cheese and champagne. Because of UN sanctions, there is a worldwide ban on the export of these goods to the communist country. Kim Jong-un attempts to circumvent sanctions. the
“The United Nations Security council has North Korea clear, sanctions are imposed, and it is important to also maintain it”, says Dutch minister Sigrid Kaag of Foreign Trade, on whose instructions the container with vodka has been seized. “Also the import of luxury goods falls below it. It is so absolutely justified that the customs authorities that the container ultimately board has met.”
The Security council has North Korea clear, sanctions are imposed, and it is important to also to maintain
Sigrid Kaag
Compliments
Kaag is happy with the action. “Over the last few days there is good cooperation to the container of the ship. Compliments to everyone who contributed, even the shipping company.”
According to Remco Breuker, professor of Korean studies at Leiden University, it is of great importance that the Netherlands, the cargo has not passed. The population of North Korea lives on a food ration of 300 grams per day, as it turned out last week. That’s just the half of what it was previously. “The vodka would be auctioned and the proceeds would go to North Korean refugees must go” says Breuker.