Axis of Evil

China Illegally Transferred Cargo to North Korea
VOA News
A North Korean military security guard keeps watch over the USS Pueblo in Pyongyang, North Korea, Jan. 24, 2108.

Japan says its military has witnessed a cargo transfer between China and North Korea on the high seas that it suspects violates United Nations economic sanctions on Pyongyang.
The foreign ministry said Tuesday a maritime surveillance plane and an escort ship spotted a North Korean-flagged tanker, identified as the Yu Jong 2, floating alongside a small ship last Friday about 250 kilometers off the Chinese city of Shanghai in the East China Sea.
The nationality of the other ship is unknown, but the ministry said the words "Min Ning De You 078" were written in Chinese on the ship's bow, which translates as an oil ship from Ningde city in China's coastal Fujian province.
The ministry says it has reported the suspected transfer to the U.N. Security Council. 

This is the third such incident reported by Tokyo this year.
Pyongyang is subject to a series of U.N. Security Council sanctions over the regime's continued testing of its nuclear and ballistic missile weapons, including one prohibiting all member states from facilitating or engaging in ship-to-ship transfers of goods to or from North Korean-flagged vessels.

Two-Face China

China Caught Red-Handed Selling Illegal Oil To North Korea By Spy Cameras
By Nathaniel Artosilla

North Korea's military personnel parade with a portrait of North Korea's late leader Kim Il-sung in central Pyongyang April 25, 2007.

China appears to have a soft spot for its neighbour North Korea as the country was spotted selling oil to the country in spite of sanctions levied by the United Nations. 

Images from a spy satellite revealed Chinese and North Korean vessels illicitly linking up at sea for the purpose of selling oil to the rogue state.
The images, which were published by a South Korean newspaper, led US President Donald Trump to condemn China as ship-to-ship transfers are prohibited under the UN-imposed sanctions. 

Trump added that such a move would prevent "a friendly solution" to the crisis over Pyongyang's nuclear program
"Caught red-handed," Trump wrote on Twitter. 

"Very disappointed that China is allowing oil to go into North Korea"
The revelation happens just after Trump's state visit to China which gave the impression that the US finally managed to win Beijing's support in the war of words with nuke-nut Kim whom he dubbed "Rocketman." 

This is a massive setback for US foreign policy in the region at a time world edges closer to a new world war.
China had already denied using its ships to sell oil to its neighbour. 

The imagessuggest otherwise, however, revealing that trading has been going on for three months with at least 30 shipments being delivered.
Back in September, the UN Security Council unanimously decided to impose new economic sanctions on North Korea after a recent intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) test. 

The sanctions aim to further limit the country's access to refined petroleum products and crude oil by capping them at 500,000 barrels a year.
The US-drafted resolution aims to stifle as much as 90 percent of oil supplies to the hermit kingdom threatening further reductions should the North conduct another nuclear test or launch another ICBM. By illegally selling oil to the country, it gives a massive boost of confidence in their dream of wiping out the US by aiding to the communist country's nuclear missile program.