Floo flighting if it does turn out to are accurate. Weve seen evidence of the ship to Ship Transfers. The u. S. Has given evidence to the panel. And we also understand from this report that they say that the north koreans are, quote, increasingly sophisticated evasion techniques, this is what they are using, they are becoming more sophisticated in their efforts to try to hide the fact that these are north korean tankers and ships at sea doing this kind of transfer. Is so certainly this will be of concern to the Security Council sanctions committee. Right. And what about south korea . They were the ones who first made this renewed connection with north korea and that ended up leading to a summit with the u. S. President. Do you expect them to respond . Reporter well, weve had no response from south korea at this point or from any of the players in the region. Certainly this report was only
handed to the committee on friday night. So there will be a lot of questions being asked about it.
korean leader kim jung-un pledge towards denuclearization, a pledge made here in singapore less than two months ago during that historic first face-to-face encounter between kim jung-un and u.s. president trump. pompeo went on to say that he was urging southeast asian nations to continue the diplomatic and economic isolation around the north korean regime, calling on all countries to continue enforcement of united nations security council resolutions banning for example illegal ship to ship transfer of petroleum headed to north korea. and he also singled out russia accusing it of being involved in helping north korea evade united nations embargoes. we have seen reports that russia is allowing for joint ventures with north korean firms and granting new work permits to