North Korea Using 'Increasingly Advanced' Ship-to-Ship Transfers to Evade Sanctions, UN Says
North Korea is using "increasingly advanced" ship-to-ship transfers to get around global sanctions on the country, the United Nations said in a recent report. Those techniques include "the disguising of vessels through ship identity theft and false Automatic Identification System…
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(AIS) transmissions," the U.N. said. Other methods "include physical disguise of tankers of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea, the use of small, unregistered vessels, illegal name-changing and other forms of identity fraud, night transfers and the use of additional vessels for transshipment," the report said.