A North Korean vessel was allowed to dock at a Chinese port handling cargos like coal on Tuesday, the NK Pro ship tracker shows, despite ever-tightening UN resolutions on the types of commodities countries can import from the DPRK.

The DPRK-flagged Kum Dae arrived near the port in northeast China on November 2, and is one of several North Korean ships which have made their way to the region over the last week.

While ship location data does not include specifics on vessel cargos, satellite imagery indicates the northeastern Chinese port handles various commodities which appear