Australia has reportedly confirmed that an Australian national took part in North Korean purchases of two luxury yachts for the communist state’s reclusive leader, Kim Jong-il.

Japan’s Yomiuri Shimbun quoted a diplomatic source in New York as saying that Australia made the report to the U.N. Security Council Sanctions Committee on December 23rd of last year.

Australia is the fourth U.N. member country to have reported a violation of a U.N. resolution sanctioning North Korea to the U.N. committee.

The U.N. approved resolution 1718, which bans the export of luxury items to North Korea, following the communist country’s first nuclear test in October 2006.

The world body then strengthened sanctions on Pyongyang in response to North Korea’s second nuclear test in May of last year.