CNN: Report: 49 countries have been busting sanctions on North Korea
President Trump has been tightening the screw on North Korea, ramping up sanctions and urging other countries to sever trade links with Kim Jong Un's regime.
But dozens of countries have violated international sanctions on Pyongyang in recent years, according to a new report by a Washington-based think tank.
It highlights the scale of the challenge facing Trump as he tries to cut North Korea out of the global trading system as a way of pressuring it to abandon its nuclear weapons program.
A total of 49 countries violated United Nations sanctions on North Korea to varying degrees between March 2014 and September 2017, the Institute for Science and International Security said. That includes North Korea's top trading partner, China, as well as Germany, Brazil, India and France.
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WNU Editor: Besides the usual countries (China and Russia), we have some very close U.S. allies who are doing business with North Korea.... France and Germany to name a few.
