UN panel: Sanctions delaying NKorea nuke program

Published May 17, 2013 4:00am ET



UNITED NATIONS (AP) — A U.N. expert panel’s report says North Korea is still trying to import and export nuclear and ballistic missile-related material but financial and trade sanctions are slowing progress on their prohibited weapons programs.

Key parts of the report, obtained Friday by the Associated Press, provide further information on North Korea’s attempts to evade four rounds of increasingly tough U.N. sanctions aimed at reining in its development of nuclear weapons and the ballistic missiles to deliver them.

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