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WASHINGTON \u2014 South Korea, the United States, the European Union’s diplomatic service and eight other countries on Friday issued a joint statement calling for a U.N. panel to act swiftly to designate vessels accused of violating U.N. sanctions against North Korea. The governments of South Korea, the U.S., Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Britain and the European External Action Service issued the statement, demonstrating unity against the North’s evasion of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions banning the export of its coal and iron ore. They welcomed last month’s briefing on Pyongyang’s sanctions-evasion activities by the Open Source Centre, a non-profit entity using open data to study various issues. “The evidence presented \u2014 including vessel imagery, voyage reconstruction, Automatic Identification System manipulation, and port call analysis \u2014 indicates clear violations of obligations under Security Council resolutions prohibiting the export of DPRK coal and iron ore,” they said of the briefing. DPRK is short for North Korea’s official name, the Dem<\/div>\n
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