NKHR Launches New Investigative Report: "Sailing Sanctions"
📢 New Report: “Sailing Sanctions” Minerals from North Korea’s Forced Labor Mines and Maritime Trade Expansion with China and Russia
A year-long investigation by the Citizens’ Alliance for North Korean Human Rights (NKHR), supported by expert maritime analysis from Data Desk (UK) and combining vessel-tracking analysis of 47 ships, has found that sanctioned North Korean vessels are now making more foreign port calls than at any point since before the pandemic.
Based on testimony from 22 witnesses, the report reveals that the Ministry of National Defense has consolidated an almost total monopoly over North Korea’s coal and mineral exports and is managing its profits through a financial architecture built entirely inside China that international sanctions have failed to reach.
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