Chinese Ships Spotted Selling Oil to N.Korea

Chosun Ilbo ^ | December 26, 2017 | Yu Yong-weon, Kim Jin-myung

[TigerLikesRooster]

Chinese Ships Spotted Selling Oil to N.Korea

By Yu Yong-weon, Kim Jin-myung


December 26, 2017 11:22

U.S. reconnaissance satellites have spotted Chinese ships selling oil to North Korean vessels on the West Sea around 30 times since October.

According to South Korean government sources, the satellites have pictured large Chinese and North Korean ships illegally trading in oil in a part of the West Sea closer to China than South Korea.

The satellite pictures even show the names of the ships. A government source said, "We need to focus on the fact that the illicit trade started after a UN Security Council resolution in September drastically capped North Korea's imports of refined petroleum products."

The U.S. Treasury Department placed six North Korean shipping and trading companies and 20 of their ships on sanctions list on Nov. 21, when it published spy satellite images taken on Oct. 19 showing a ship named Ryesonggang 1 connected to a Chinese vessel.



The department noted that the two ships appeared to be illegally trading in oil from ship to ship to bypass sanctions.

Ship-to-ship trade with North Korea on the high seas is forbidden in UNSC Resolution 2375 adopted in September, but such violations are nearly impossible to detect unless China aggressively cracks down on smuggling.

The problem is that any oil embargo imposed on the North in the event of further provocations will probably be futile as long as illegal smuggling continues.

It is uncertain whether the Chinese government is deliberately looking the other way, but it seems unlikely that it is unaware given the sheer volume.

[TigerLikesRooster]

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[TigerLikesRooster]

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....Millions of residents of Tokyo are to take part in evacuation drills simulating a North Korean nuclear attack on the Japanese capital.

The national and city governments are to carry out a series of exercises between January and March to prepare for a potential attack on Tokyo, the Sankei Shimbun newspaper reported, the first time that a major Japanese city will have carried out responses to a simulated attack..........

[Reno89519]

Tell China to stop or face sanction of Chinese goods to the US. Start with simple things and ratchet it up, each day a new restriction.

[HiTech RedNeck]

Poor Japan... Hope it isn’t under a curse to get nuked again

[gaijin]

Disconnect a major Chinese Bank from the international banking system.

[SteveH]

Hmmm, The situation seems to call for privateers...

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Poor Japan... Hope it isn’t under a curse to get nuked again

For a third time.

[spokeshave]

Where are the rods from hell when we need them.

[Forgotten Amendments]

Starving the NK people & depriving them of oil is an act of war & IMHO a war crime. They have suffered enough. The evil regime will not suffer.

Oil embargo was what forced Pearl Harbor.

Who is stirring this up? This is insanity.

[bitt]

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[Balding_Eagle]

And widespread fire bombings burning millions to death helped win WWII.

What’s your point.

[NonValueAdded]

Article I, Section 8, Letters of Marque. Congress, Do IT!

[Flag_This]

"Oil embargo was what forced Pearl Harbor."

And why was there an embargo?

Take your time...

[davidb56]

my mom can answer that.....born in shanghai 1929. immigrated to new york 1947.

[Robert A Cook PE]

A unique blockade in all of history of siege warfare and blockades. One country trying to prevent a “not enemy country “ from exporting legal goods to itself to affect the international sales of a legal product to a third country.

[TBP]

In that case, slap a trade embargo on China.

[trebb]

Yeah - as if anything going into North Korea is being used on behalf of the people....feeding them and sending all sorts of largess over the decades has resulted in a valid nuclear threat to the rest of us, and a sick/hungry/oppressed population where even ‘elite” soldiers suffer horrible malnutrition and other indignitites - why not keep doing it??????

[PIF]

Starving the NK people & depriving them of oil is an act of war & IMHO a war crime. They have suffered enough. The evil regime will not suffer. Oil embargo was what forced Pearl Harbor. Who is stirring this up? This is insanity.

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Best to leave it to the diplomats until NOKO has workable and reliable re-entry vehicles with thermonuclear MIRVed warheads ... after all Barkly said we are strong enough to absorb a few nuclear strikes without retaliating ... By-by SF, LA, Seattle, Anchorage, Hawaii - you were fun to have around but ... in the interest of diplomacy, sacrifices had to be made for the greater good.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

China’s love child.