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UN Committee: N. Korea Continues to Buy Banned Luxury Items

Written: 2019-09-06 11:53:29Updated: 2019-09-07 13:01:14

UN Committee: N. Korea Continues to Buy Banned Luxury Items

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The UN Security Council Sanctions Committee on North Korea has assessed that North Korea continues to purchase banned luxury items in violation of international sanctions. 

In a report released on Thursday, the committee cited as evidence a Mercedes Maybach S-Class limousine that the North brought to Vietnam for a summit between North Korean leader Kim Jong-un and U.S. President Donald Trump earlier this February.

The report added that a UN member state confiscated shipments of roughly 10-thousand bottles of Belarusian vodka and 90-thousand bottles of Russian vodka last November and this February, respectively.

The spirits, worth approximately 41-thousand U.S. dollars, were likely purchased by the North according to the report.

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