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Report: Russia Gives North Korea One Million Barrels of Oil

2024-11-22 07:59:14, Kosova & Bota CNA

Report: Russia Gives North Korea One Million Barrels of Oil

Russia is alleged to have supplied North Korea with more than one million barrels of oil since March of this year, according to analysis of satellite images by the Open Source Center, a non-profit research group based in the United Kingdom.

According to experts, oil is payment for the weapons and troops that Pyongyang has sent to Moscow to fuel its war in Ukraine.

The transfers violate UN sanctions, which ban countries from selling oil to North Korea except in small quantities in an attempt to strangle its economy to prevent it from further developing nuclear weapons.

Satellite images, shared exclusively with the BBC, show more than a dozen different North Korean oil tankers arriving at an oil terminal in Russia's Far East a total of 43 times over the past eight months.

North Korea is the only country in the world that is not allowed to buy oil on the open market. The number of barrels of refined oil it can take is limited by the United Nations to 500,000 per year, far below the amount it needs./ CNA





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