Tag: north korea

Britain informed that it has collected evidence of multiple ships from various nationalities breaching United Nations sanctions against North Korea which ban the sale of fuel to the country.

A New York federal court entered a judgment of forfeiture for an oil tanker, which was used as part of a scheme to evade sanctions against North Korea.

A federal indictment revealed charges to three North Korean computer programmers with participating in a wide-ranging criminal conspiracy to conduct a series of destructive cyber-attacks.

The U.S. Department of the Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC) recently designated six entities and identified four vessels related to the transport of North Korean coal.

The UK P&I Club issued an updated circular on the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea (DPRK) sanctions enforcement, following a previous circular in 2019. The update includes the recent 2019/2020 UN Panel of Experts of North Korea Sanctions Report, published by the UN Security Council in March 2020. 

Vessels which violate the current UN Security Council Resolutions (UNSCRs) on trading with North Korea will not be registered with the Palau International Ship Registry (PISR), as it became the latest registry to have joined a relevant MoU between Liberia, Marshall Islands and Panama, on 21 January 2020.

A "ghost ship" with seven badly decomposed bodies onboard washed up on a Japanese island on 28 December, local officials announced. The remains were found in a broken wooden vessel, suspected to have come from North Korea.

The US Department of Justice announced the entry of a judgment of forfeiture regarding the M/V Wise Honest, a 17,061-ton, single-hull bulk carrier ship registered in North Korea. The Department said that Wise Honest was used to illicitly ship coal from North Korea and to deliver heavy machinery back to the N. Korea.

The North Korean bulk carrier 'Wise Honest', which was detained for over five months in the port of Pago Pago, American Samoa, eventually departed under tow on Monday, bound for demolition, less than three months after the US revealed intentions to sell the seized vessel, following order by a federal court. 

A Japanese Fisheries Agency patrol ship collided with a North Korean fishing vessel on the morning of Monday, October 7, which led to the sinking of the fishing vessel. A search for survivors has been established and as announced by the agency that all of the sixty individuals that were on board at the time have been safely rescued.