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