North Korea has continued to develop its nuclear and ballistic missile programs including its capability to produce nuclear fissile materials in violation of United Nations Security Council resolutions, U.N. experts say.
government, the experts monitoring the implementation of sanctions against the North said in the new report.
The Security Council initially imposed sanctions on North Korea after its first nuclear test explosion in 2006 and made them tougher in response to further nuclear tests and the country’s increasingly sophisticated nuclear and ballistic missile programs.resulted in “historically low levels” of people and goods entering and leaving the country. Legal and illegal trade including in luxury goods “has largely ceased” though cross-border rail traffic resumed in early January, it said.
U.N. sanctions ban North Korean coal exports and the experts said in the new report that although coal exports by sea increased in the second half of 2021, “they were still at relatively low levels.
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