North Korea earned nearly $200m (\u00a3141m) last year by exporting banned commodities in breach of international sanctions, a UN report says.<\/p>\n
The report by a panel of experts said several countries including China, Russia and Malaysia had failed to stop the illegal exports.<\/p>\n
It said there was evidence of military co-operation with Syria and Myanmar.<\/p>\n
Pyongyang is subject to sanctions from the US, UN and EU over its nuclear and ballistic missile programmes.<\/p>\n
But the report, which was submitted to the UN Security Council, said the North “continued to export almost all the commodities prohibited in the resolutions… between January and September 2017”.<\/p>\n
The report said several unnamed multinational oil companies were being investigated for their alleged role in supplying petroleum products to North Korea.<\/p>\n
It said shipments of coal had been delivered to China, Malaysia, South Korea, Russia and Vietnam in breach of sanctions using “a combination of multiple evasion techniques, routes and deceptive tactics”.<\/p>\n
Monitors found that Myanmar and Syria continued to co-operate with North Korea’s main arms exporter, Komid, despite it being on a UN sanctions blacklist.<\/p>\n
The report said there was evidence that the North was helping Syria to develop chemical weapons and providing ballistic missiles to Myanmar.<\/p>\n
Syrian officials had told the monitors that the only North Korean experts on its territory were involved in sports.<\/p>\n
Myanmar’s ambassador to the UN said the country had no arms relationship with North Korea.<\/p>\n
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Source: BBC<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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