As I said in a previous post, there are more sanctions coming on ships that off-load cargo to North Korean ships on the high seas. This little trick allows trade with North Korea to go on while everyone facilitiating the trade votes against it in UN resolutions. The United States proposed 33 ships be prevented from coming to any port. Nineteen of them are North Korean. Those that aren’t are to be deregistered.
China has blocked a vote on the resolution from the North Korean sanctions committee at the UN, which absurdly requires a unanimous decision. Nothing in diplomacy can be done if the decision has to be unanimous. Probably, some of those ships are Chinese. They don’t mind sanctions if they don’t involve China. Yes, that is hypocritical.....but not as hypocritical as voting for sanctions and then violating them.
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