News North Korea scraps massive ‘motherships’ after using them to smuggle oil: ReportUN Panel of Experts identifies new tactic to destroy evidence as DPRK continues efforts to elude sanctions monitors ![]() North Korea has enlisted two massive oil tankers known as “motherships” to help smuggle discounted Taiwanese oil into the DPRK, bolstering the country’s fuel smuggling efforts, according to a forthcoming U.N. report seen by NK Pro. U.N. experts state in the report that the tankers have also already been scrapped, identifying a new trend in which vessels that catch sanctions monitors’ attention quickly sail to scrapyards to be torn apart, thereby destroying any physical evidence. According to the report, the Mongolia-flagged Xiang Shun (IMO 9153800) and Palau-flagged Hong Hu (IMO 9125293) loaded refined petroleum © Korea Risk Group. All rights reserved. |