Ship-to-ship transfers a big loophole in N Korea sanctions: Kono

What a weary report.

Trying to keep the flogged horse alive ......

If ya can't get goods at home .. ya go shopping on the high sea, there's nothing criminal about that.

When it's ship to ship deliver in international zone it's not illegal, it's illegal when an international authority states it's illegal for sanctions, that's the answer. Who is making the sanctions, Japan, USA, or UN? If there are countries not against sanctions to North Korea in UN discussion it means that Japan, USA and some allies are doing the sanctions, but nothing really clear the items of US and Japan have in their list. I want to know what's the real news about the items of sanctions. Pyongyang's weapons of mass destruction programs of nuclear power structured materials I know well they are for sanctions. If there are petrol pipelines underground at the border of Russia and North Korea what is Kono talking about "extremely big loophole" at sea means nothing.

We need to never forget who we are trying to handle in NK.

someone willing to starve his people

single party political system

dictator for life

no freedom of speech

no freedom of assembly

no freedom of travel

NK leadership and those supporting that control are NOT the friends to the NK people or the world.

So the Chinese will sanctions bust while claiming to be honoring their commitments. In the meantime NK keeps it's population in chains. And China moves closer to that model every day. That meeting in SG was a huge mistake.

Not only Chinese ships. South Korean ships have also been filmed performing these transfers to NK ships.