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# North Korea 'runs international nuclear smuggling network'
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## North Korea has operated a widespread overseas smuggling network to supply
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banned nuclear and ballistic missile components to Burma, Syria and Iran,
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according to a United Nations report that recommends tightening inspections of
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its foreign activities.
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![North Korea's nuclear chief arrested for 'passing secrets to a foreign
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power' ][1]
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Photo: AFP/GETTY IMAGES
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By Damien McElroy, Foreign Affairs Correspondent 5:36PM GMT 12 Nov 2010
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The report from a key technical committee that examines compliance with
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international sanction was considered so sensitive that China had blocked its
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circulation for the last six months.
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The report provides key backing for Western intelligence reports that North
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Korea has supplied weapons material for countries hostile to American foreign
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policy.
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Experts responsible for the 75-page report found that [North Korea][2]
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provided the expertise for construction of nuclear faility in Syria that
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Israel bombed in 2007. It also found that a sanctioned North Korean firm had
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engaged in "suspicious activity" in Burma and supplied a dual use magnet
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through a trading firm in Tokyo.
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The finding that North Korea is involved with "the surreptitious transfer of
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nuclear-related and ballistic missile-related equipment, know-how and
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technology" to countries including Iran, Syria and Burma, by the experts from
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UN Security Council sanctions committee will enhance efforts to intercept and
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disrupt North Korea overseas.
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The experts called for "special attention" to be taken by the international
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community "to inhibit such activities" and for more detailed investigation
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into the sophisticated means used by North Korea to circumvent the sanctions.
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## Related Articles
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* [North Korea's 'uranium enrichment'][3]
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21 Nov 2010
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* [North Korea's nuclear chief arrested for 'passing secrets to a foreign
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power'][4]
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10 Nov 2010
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It said the list eight companies and five individuals current subject to an
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asset freeze and travel ban was inadequate to the task of preventing
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proliferation. Other companies have replaced the listed entities. The lengths
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North Korea goes to as it sold banned material were also detailed including
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hiring private jets through off-shore companies, providing false descriptions
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and mislabeling of the contents of shipping containers, falsifying the
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manifest and information about the origin and destination of the goods.
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North Korea staged one nuclear test in 2006 and claims it set off another
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nuclear device in 2009 and the UN Security Council imposed sanctions on
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imports and exports and an asset freeze on a number of individuals in 2009.
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"The Democratic People's Republic of Korea employs a broad range of techniques
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to mask its transactions, including the use of overseas entities, shell
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companies, informal transfer mechanisms, cash couriers and barter
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arrangements," said the report.
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The document was released after President Barack Obama met with China's
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President Hu Jintao at a G20 meeting in Seoul, though China had withdrawn its
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objections to the report in the run-up to the trip.
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## [North Korea][2]
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* ### [News »][10]
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* ### [World News »][11]
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