UN report: North Korea continues to violate sanctions, missile program intact

Reuters on a report to a 15-member U.N. Security Council sanctions committee

• North Korea's nuclear and ballistic missile programs remain intact
• Country is working to make sure those capabilities cannot be destroyed by any military strikes

Reuters have sighted the 317-page U.N. report, which was submitted to Security Council members on Friday:

• "The country continues to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illegal ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products and coal," the sanctions monitors found. "These violations render the latest U.N. sanctions ineffective."
• The report accused North Korea of also violating a U.N. arms embargo and attempting "to sell a wide range of military equipment to armed groups and governments in the Middle East and Africa," as well as small arms and light weapons to Libya, Sudan and the Houthi rebels in Yemen.

All this ahead of the upcoming Trump / Kim meeting. it doesn't look like the last one made one jot of difference to NK.