North Korea is evading international sanctions with a sophisticated network of overseas companies, enabled partly by its continued access to the international banking system, says a forthcoming United Nations report seen by Reuters.
North Korea is under heavy UN sanctions and a strict arms embargo designed to impede the development of its banned nuclear and missile programs. The UN panel of experts, which produced the 100-page draft report, was created to investigate reported infringements of those sanctions.
-Reuters, Pyongyang
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