On Oct. 10 last year, eight North Korean vessels - several carrying illicit coal shipments - were anchored in Chinese waters off the port of Ningbo-Zhoushan, according to a photo in a U.N. report published online on Friday.
The annual report to the U.N. Security Council by independent
sanctions monitors said
North Korea continued to flout council resolutions "through illicit maritime exports of commodities, notably coal and sand" in 2019, earning
Pyongyang hundreds of millions of dollars.