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North Korean Oil Tanker Stops in Chinese Port in the First Recorded Visit Since 2017
It’s the first time since tight U.N. sanctions on the North’s oil imports went into effect that Pyongyang has openly sent a tanker to China.
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July 24, 2021
This May 19, 2018 photo released by Japan’s Ministry of Defense shows North Korean-flagged tanker Ji Song 6 in the East China Sea.
Credit: Ministry of Defense via AP
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A North Korean oil tanker pulled up to a Chinese port in April this year, the such first recorded visit in nearly half a decade, after Pyongyang eschewed traditional trading methods in favor of sanctioned, difficult to trace ship-to-ship transfers at sea.
North Korea threatens NGOs, media over claims of malnourished children
Aid organizations recently told a U.N. panel that children are suffering due to the DPRK’s COVID-19 border restrictions
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Image: Sogwang, Feb. 2020
A North Korean health ministry official warned that Pyongyang may take countermeasures with foreign aid organizations on Tuesday over what it deemed were “utterly baseless” claims that COVID-19-related restrictions are preventing treatment of malnourished children in the DPRK.
The statement also warned South Korean media organizations and accused them of seeking to “incite north-south confrontation” by reporting on the NGO claims of malnutrition that were included in a U.N. Panel of Experts (PoE) report released last week.
Posted on February 22nd, 2021
By Shamindra Ferdinando Courtesy The Island
UK hindered war crimes investigation – Naseby tells Bachelet
Leader of Sri Lanka Core Group, the UK, has suppressed official documents that could have helped the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Council (UNHRC) to establish the truth pertaining to war crimes allegations, including the number of deaths on the Vanni east front in 2009, Lord Naseby has said in a letter addressed to Michelle Bachelet, United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
Lord Naseby has raised the issue in his capacity as the President of the All Party British-Sri Lanka Parliamentary Group. The Conservative politician was responding to the controversial ‘Report of the Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights on Sri Lanka’ that recommended punitive measures against Sri Lanka, ahead of the 46th sessions of the UNHRC due to commence today (22).
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