Report: Russian Tankers Fueled North Korea
These Russian vessels should be seized, searched and only then returned. Headline the ship and her crew, shame them on the news. Afaik, the NK ships can be evacuated, emptied of oils and fuel then scuttled. New fish reef. North Korea presents a clear and present existential threat to a number of nations that we are sworn to protect. Perhaps a clear danger also to the US itself in terms of the ability to nuke a few cities or bases.
My bold.
LONDON/MOSCOW, Dec 29 - Russian tankers have supplied fuel to North Korea on at least three occasions in recent months by transferring cargoes at sea, according to two senior Western European security sources, providing an economic lifeline to the secretive Communist state.
The sales of oil or oil products from Russia, the world’s second biggest oil exporter and a veto-wielding member of the United Nations Security Council, breach U.N. sanctions, the security sources said.
The transfers in October and November indicate that smuggling from Russia to North Korea has evolved to loading cargoes at sea since Reuters reported in September that North Korean ships were sailing directly from Russia to their homeland.
“Russian vessels have made ship-to-ship transfers of petrochemicals to North Korean vessels on several occasions this year in breach of sanctions,” the first security source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, told Reuters.