A shipment of North Korean rocket-propelled grenades seized two years ago by the Egyptian authorities was headed to a Cairo-based weapon and ballistic missile factory, according to an upcoming report from the UN Panel of Experts (PoE) tasked with monitoring DPRK sanctions enforcement.

The weaponry was hidden beneath a shipment of iron ore and intercepted by the Egyptian government in August 2016. The seizure was the largest ammunition interdiction since the beginning of the North Korean sanctions regime.

“The RPGs were prominently marked ‘Al-Sakr Cairo’ followed by an address identical to that on the shipping documentation