North Korea arming Syria, Myanmar: UN report

North Korea has been selling weapons to the governments of Syria and Myanmar, and has been exporting banned materials such as coal, iron, and steel, a United Nations report has found.


According to the report released on Friday, Pyongyang has been assisting Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's government in developing its nuclear weapons programme, and has provided Myanmar's army with ballistic missiles.

North Korea "continued to export almost all the commodities prohibited in the resolutions, generating nearly $200m in revenue between January and September 2017," the report read, according to the AFP news agency which has seen a copy.
  [aljazeera.com]
 3/2/18