The document accuses leader Kim Jong Un’s regime of “taking action against financial institutions and virtual currency exchange houses” for paying for weapons and keeping North Korea’s struggling economy afloat. An anonymous country that is a member of the UN claims that hackers stole 31 6,316.4 million in virtual assets between 2019 and November 2020, according to the document.
The report also alleges that North Korea “produced foreign materials, maintained nuclear facilities and improved its ballistic missile infrastructure” while “continuing to obtain materials and technology for these programs from abroad.”
North Korea has been trying for years to develop powerful nuclear weapons and advanced missiles to pair them, despite their immense value and the fact that the UN has turned the country into an international perennial by banning it from conducting almost any economic activity with other countries. Countries.
UN investigators say an anonymous country assesses that it is “most likely” that North Korea could mount a ballistic missile nuclear device of any range, but it is unclear whether those missiles could successfully penetrate the Earth’s atmosphere.
UN on North Korea The report, written by a panel of experts, would accuse the organization of monitoring the implementation and effectiveness of sanctions imposed against the Kim regime as punishment for its nuclear weapons and ballistic missile development.
Details from the report, which is currently secret, were obtained by CNN from a diplomatic source at the United Nations Security Council, who shared some parts of the document on condition of anonymity. The panel’s report includes information from UN member states, intelligence agencies, the media and those fleeing the country – not just North Korea. These reports are usually published every six months, one in early autumn and the other in early spring.
It is not clear when the report will be released. The previous leak has angered both members of the UN Security Council, China and Russia, leading to diplomatic setbacks and delays.
Trump tried to get Kim to abandon his pursuit of nuclear weapons through high-level diplomacy, betting that his negotiating skills could help him achieve where past presidents had failed. Trump became the first US president to meet with the North Korean leader in 2018 and then met with him twice more, but failed to persuade the young North Korean dictator to stop the nuclear weapons business.
It is not clear how US President B Biden will move forward, although his allies have made it clear that allies South Korea and Japan will be heavy. Biden’s national security adviser, Jack Sullivan, said last week that the administration was reviewing a policy and that it “would not go beyond that review” in public.
A new source of income
The UN panel found that North Korea’s strict Kovid-19 border control had affected the regime’s ability to import much-needed hard currency from abroad. Pyongyang uses complex approval-ignoring plans to keep its economy afloat and gain tougher UN sanctions.
Coal historian has historically been one of North Korea’s most valuable exports – a 2019 report by the panel found that Pyongyang collected 0 370 million in coal exports, but shipments since July 2020 appear to have stalled.
That’s possible because North Korea severed almost all of its ties with the outside world in 2020 to cover almost all trade with Beijing, including cases of coronavirus, the poorest country needs its people not to starve. While the decision appears to have crippled the epidemic, it has brought the North Korean economy closer to collapse than it has been for decades.
Catastrophic hurricanes, punitive sanctions and an epidemic drowned the North Korean economy and experts in 2020. Experts believe that with the border closed, North Korea relies more on its hackers to bring in revenue during its epidemic.
Cooperation with Iran
The report cited a number of unnamed nations that claimed that North Korea and Iran had re-cooperated on long-range missile development projects, including trade in parts needed to develop these weapons. North Korea successfully tested three intercontinental-range ballistic missiles (ICBMs) in 2017 and paraded a large, new ICBM at a public event in October.
Tehran denied that it was working with North Korea on missile technology. The report includes comments from Iran’s UN mission, which in December claimed that UN panel experts had been given “misinformation and misinformation that could be used in the panel’s investigation and analysis.”
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