{"id":12292,"date":"2023-11-27T18:08:26","date_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:08:26","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12292"},"modified":"2023-11-27T18:08:26","modified_gmt":"2023-11-27T18:08:26","slug":"china-supported-sanctions-on-north-koreas-nuclear-program-its-also-behind-their-failure","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/?p=12292","title":{"rendered":"China supported sanctions on North Korea&#8217;s nuclear program. It&#8217;s also behind their failure"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\n\n&#8220;Chinese middlemen launder the proceeds of North Korean hackers\u2019 cyber heists while Chinese ships deliver sanctioned North Korean goods to Chinese ports.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Chinese companies help North Koreans workers \u2014&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-weapons-program-it-workers-f3df7c120522b0581db5c0b9682ebc9b\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">from cheap laborers to well-paid IT specialists<\/a>&nbsp;\u2014 find work abroad.&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/north-korea-sanctions-art-paintings-propaganda-china-mansudae-c60c2274ad84e675e97a07d05d48308e\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">A Beijing art gallery even boasts of North Korean artists<\/a>&nbsp;working 12-hour days in its heavily surveilled compound, churning out paintings of idyllic visions of life under communism that each sell for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">That&#8217;s all part of what international authorities say is a growing mountain of evidence that shows Beijing is helping cash-strapped North Korea evade a broad range of international sanctions designed to hamper Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, according to an Associated Press review of&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/securitycouncil\/sanctions\/1718\/panel_experts\/reports\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">United Nations reports<\/a>,&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.justice.gov\/opa\/pr\/two-chinese-nationals-charged-laundering-over-100-million-cryptocurrency-exchange-hack\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">court records<\/a>&nbsp;and interviews with experts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">\u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming,\u201d&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.rusi.org\/people\/aaron-arnold\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Aaron Arnold<\/a>, a former member of a U.N. panel on North Korea and a sanctions expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said of the links between China and sanctions evasion. \u201cAt this point, it\u2019s very hard to say it\u2019s not intentional.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/china-supported-sanctions-north-koreas-050256098.html\">https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/china-supported-sanctions-north-koreas-050256098.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;Chinese middlemen launder the proceeds of North Korean hackers\u2019 cyber heists while Chinese ships deliver sanctioned North Korean goods to Chinese ports.<br \/>\nChinese companies help North Koreans workers \u2014 from cheap laborers to well-paid IT specialists \u2014 find work abroad. A Beijing art gallery even boasts of North Korean artists working 12-hour days in its heavily surveilled compound, churning out paintings of idyllic visions of life under communism that each sell for thousands of dollars.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s all part of what international authorities say is a growing mountain of evidence that shows Beijing is helping cash-strapped North Korea evade a broad range of international sanctions designed to hamper Pyongyang&#8217;s nuclear weapons program, according to an Associated Press review of United Nations reports, court records and interviews with experts.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s overwhelming,\u201d Aaron Arnold, a former member of a U.N. panel on North Korea and a sanctions expert at the Royal United Services Institute, said of the links between China and sanctions evasion. \u201cAt this point, it\u2019s very hard to say it\u2019s not intentional.\u201d&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>https:\/\/www.yahoo.com\/news\/china-supported-sanctions-north-koreas-050256098.html<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[89,272,355,314,277,180,994,1001],"class_list":["post-12292","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article-share","tag-china","tag-foreign-affairs","tag-foreign-policy","tag-international-relations","tag-north-korea","tag-nuclear","tag-nuclear-weapons","tag-sanctions"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12292"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12293,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12292\/revisions\/12293"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12292"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12292"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lonecandle.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12292"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}