the Big transport ships, at anchor close together off the north Korean port city of Haeju.
It was in may last year a team at the research Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS, red.) to lift the eyebrows. It showed the satellite imagery namely the vigorous activity in the sea off the port city in southwest north Korea.
Since the 90’s, the regime in the closed country on the Korean peninsula has been subject to a number of strict eksportsanktioner.
At first he feared analyseteamet that the north Korean ships broke these by moving weapons, drugs, or coal, but subsequently, they have reached a different and startling conclusion. The ships are probably loaded with sand.
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Here can be seen the ships close to the two stations, which are pumped sand up to the surface. Photo: C4ADS
Breach of the sanctions
It sounds quite reliable to export sand, but in december 2017, imposed UN sanctions against north Korea, which among other things prohibits the country to sell soil and stones – including the sand.
Repeatedly diktaturstaten was discovered in the export of coal to, for example, China to get currency into Kim Jong-uns was the treasury.
According to the u.s. CNN has the dictator continued his father’s idea to make money on the export of sand abroad for a value of several hundred million dollars.
– We have found many proofs from the 90’s and up to today that north Korea has exported sand to its neighbouring countries, says Lauren Sung, has recently published C4ADS’s report on North korea’s sanktionsbrud.
Alone in the 2019 served the regime in the capital city of Pyongyang in the region of 150 million dollars to sell the sand, sounds in another UN report from april.
instead of putting the dock in the north Korean ports, the use of a tactic that sails smaller boats out at sea to pick up or deliver cargo, and cash back. In this way, the ships easier under the radar and arouse no suspicion.
sung’s report shows that many of the smaller ships, which has been used in boat-to-boat action, has carried the chinese flag.
– There has been a conscious attempt to do it here in secret, concludes Sung opposite the tv station.
In Beijing denies the government all the accusations that you had to buy sand from neighboring north Korea. In a message to CNN writes China’s ministry of foreign affairs, that one does not break UN sanctions.
‘We have always complied with our international obligations’, is among other things to the american media.
the World’s most populous nation, China, consume most true of all the countries on the planet.
The two great powers, China and Russia proposed in december that the UN lifts ban on exporting seafood, coal, iron and textiles from the north, with the intention to create prosperity for North korea’s civilian population and to encourage talks between Washington and Pyongyang.
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