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Chinese Ships Spotted Selling Oil to N.Korea
Chosun Ilbo ^
| December 26, 2017
| Yu Yong-weon, Kim Jin-myung
Posted on 12/25/2017 6:34:42 PM PST by 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.
TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: china; nkorea; oil; smuggling
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:35:14 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:38:19 PM PST
by
TigerLikesRooster
(dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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.
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:48:59 PM PST
by
Reno89519
(PRESIDENT TRUMP, KEEP YOUR PROMISES! NO AMNESTY AND BUILD THAT WALL.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Poor Japan... Hope it isn’t under a curse to get nuked again
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:49:02 PM PST
by
HiTech RedNeck
(Tryin' hard to win the No-Bull Prize.)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Disconnect a major Chinese Bank from the international banking system.
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:53:00 PM PST
by
gaijin
To: TigerLikesRooster
Hmmm, The situation seems to call for privateers...
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:53:35 PM PST
by
SteveH
To: HiTech RedNeck
Poor Japan... Hope it isnt under a curse to get nuked again For a third time.
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posted on
12/25/2017 6:57:25 PM PST
by
ROCKLOBSTER
(RATs, RINOs...same thing)
To: TigerLikesRooster
Where are the rods from hell when we need them.
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:03:30 PM PST
by
spokeshave
(FBI = Feral Bureau of Insurrection)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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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12/25/2017 7:04:35 PM PST
by
Forgotten Amendments
(Nessie ... Sasquatch ... The Free Syrian Army ...)
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:07:15 PM PST
by
bitt
(The first to squeal gets the best deal.)
To: Forgotten Amendments
And widespread fire bombings burning millions to death helped win WWII.
What’s your point.
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:08:23 PM PST
by
Balding_Eagle
( The Great Wall of Trump ---- 100% sealing of the border. Coming soon.)
To: SteveH
Article I, Section 8, Letters of Marque. Congress, Do IT!
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:09:50 PM PST
by
NonValueAdded
(#DeplorableMe #BitterClinger #HillNO! #cishet #MyPresident #MAGA #Winning #covfefe)
To: Forgotten Amendments
"Oil embargo was what forced Pearl Harbor." And why was there an embargo?
Take your time...
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:10:34 PM PST
by
Flag_This
(Liberals are locusts.)
To: Flag_This
my mom can answer that.....born in shanghai 1929. immigrated to new york 1947.
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:40:49 PM PST
by
davidb56
To: Reno89519; LS
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.
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posted on
12/25/2017 7:58:08 PM PST
by
Robert A Cook PE
(I can only donate monthly, but socialists' ABBCNNBCBS continue to lie every day!)
To: TigerLikesRooster
In that case, slap a trade embargo on China.
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posted on
12/25/2017 8:25:42 PM PST
by
TBP
(Progressives lack compassion and tolerance. Their self-aggrandizement is all that matters.)
To: Forgotten Amendments
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??????
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posted on
12/26/2017 4:29:55 AM PST
by
trebb
(Where in the the hell has my country gone? I think Trump may give it back...)
To: 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.
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.
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12/26/2017 4:32:04 AM PST
by
PIF
(They came for me and mine ... now it is your turn ...)
To: TigerLikesRooster
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12/26/2017 6:21:30 AM PST
by
Eric in the Ozarks
(Baseball players, gangsters and musicians are remembered. But journalists are forgotten.)
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