North Korea beats sanctions and finds cash for nuclear weapons
Kim Jong-un has yet to make any concessions on armament programme as deadline looms with little progress in sight
New York — North Korea is poking holes through a global web of sanctions and generating enough cash to keep its nuclear weapons programme moving along as a year-end deadline Kim Jong-un set to reach a deal with the US approaches — with little progress in sight.
Instead of “concrete, verifiable steps towards denuclearisation” — a mantra of President Donald Trump’s policy towards Pyongyang — Kim has yet to make any concessions on his nation’s nuclear programme. The ability of the North Korean leader to find ways around UN sanctions is making it difficult for America’s “maximum pressure” campaign to deliver on what the Trump administration has promised...
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