In north Korea, it becomes perhaps a little less festive in the coming time.
A container with 90,000 bottles of vodka, which is supposed to have been on the way to north Korea, has been seized in the Netherlands. It writes Reuters.
Vodkaen is Russian and was appointed to a chinese ship.
however, It is against the international sanctions against north Korea by the UN security council has adopted. They prohibit: trade of luxury goods to north Korea.
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the Container was packed with 3000 boxes each containing 30 bottles of vodka. Photo: ROBIN UTRECHT/Ritzau Scanpix
– the UN security council has adopted clear sanctions against north Korea, and it is important that they are enforced.
– the Sanctions involving the import of luxury goods, so it is completely justified that the container was taken by the ship, says the Dutch minister of commerce, Sigrid Kaag.
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It is according to Reuters unclear whether the Dutch authorities have reported sanktionsbruddet to the united nations. Photo: ROBIN UTRECHT/Ritzau Scanpix
the Container was intercepted in the Dutch port city of Rotterdam on a chinese ship which came sailing from Hamburg.
The Dutch authorities had suspected that the ship was not on the way to China, but to north Korea. According to Reuters, however, they have not presented any evidence in this regard.
