High seas shell game: How a North Korean shipping ruse makes a mockery of sanctions
Joby Warrick March 3 High seas shell game: How a North Korean shipping ruse makes a mockery of sanctions
The rusting seaport called Kholmsk is one of the sleepiest harbors in Russia’s Far East, a place that sees more full moons than coal ships in a typical year. Yet for a few weeks late last summer, this tiny port was chockablock with vessels hauling outlawed North Korean coal.