The Pyongyang regime, with the active help of China is circumventing international sanctions that prohibit buying and selling weapons. It also continues long-range missile tests. The military cargo intercepted from South Korea, was on a ship from Shanghai.

Seoul (AsiaNews / Agencies) - Despite the international ban, North Korea is selling components for the construction of short and medium range missiles to Syria. This was revealed by a UN report quoted by Japanese Kyodo agency. The Report states that last May the authorities in South Korea have intercepted a ship flying the Chinese flag in the port of Busan carrying cylinders of graphite needed for ballistic missiles. The load came from North Korea and was headed to Syria.

According to UN diplomats, the Chinese frigate (which set sail from Shanghai) is currently at anchor in the south of the peninsula. According to international law, in fact, the UN ban on the sale or purchase of weapons by Pyongyang "can not be circumvented by third countries." The U.S. State Department said this morning that it "can not comment" the issue, while a UN official added that the news "was reserved and must remain so."

However, these missiles have reignited the debate about sanctions imposed on the Kim regime. Without the effective cooperation of China, in fact, they are waste paper: Beijing is in fact the last ally of the Stalinist government, to which it sends (albeit less regularly), food aid and energy. For its part, Pyongyang continues to defy the world, there are growing reports that in April the government carried out "at least two" long-range missile tests.

 

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