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The UK has provided a group of UN experts with satellite photos of North Korean cargo ships heading to Russia. The images were taken in an attempt to launch an official investigation into arms deals that violate international sanctions, British newspaper The Guardian reported.
North Korea has been accused of supplying ballistic missiles and hundreds of thousands of artillery shells to the Russian government since Vladimir Putin met with Korean leader Kim Jong Un in the Russian Far East in September.
According to the newspaper, relations between Russia and North Korea appear to be deepening. Putin met at the Kremlin this week with North Korean Foreign Minister Choe Son-hui, who was traveling as a senior representative of Pyongyang on a rather unusual five-day trip. According to the Kremlin spokesman, the heads of state and government discussed “the further development of our relations in all areas, including sensitive ones,” the Guardian quotes.
A declassified British defense intelligence report obtained by The Guardian shows images taken between September and December of three Russian ships, the Maia, Angara and Maria, loading containers at the newly developed North Korean port of Najin before closing Russian ports in the Far East.
The agency said it could not identify what was in the containers, but followed the United States’ announcement last week that the Russian side had used ballistic missiles from North Korea in Ukraine last week, the British newspaper writes.
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