A UN committee overseeing North Korea sanctions has reportedly criticized China, Russia and other countries of failing to rein in the North’s illicit financing and weapons proliferation activity.
The Wall Street Journal reports that a U.N. panel of experts on North Korea drafted a report saying member states are letting their chance slip away to clamp down on the regime’s efforts to fund its nuclear and missile programs.
The draft criticizes China, Russia, Malaysia and other countries for failing to do enough to curb illicit finance and trade with North Korea.
It also details dozens of North Korean weapon shipments to Syria and outlines evidence that Pyongyang is helping the Bashar al-Assad regime develop a chemical weapons program.
The draft report also cited evidence that North Korea is selling a ballistic missile system and conventional weapons to Myanmar.