Despite sanctions, "Russian" tanker supplied fuel to North Korean ship-crew members

[Rigby5]

I wander what Trump is gonna do this time....
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Such transactions could have helped provide North Korea with an economic lifeline and eased the isolation of the secretive communist state, whose leader, Kim Jong Un, is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam this week.

Primportbunker, the owner of the vessel the crew members said made the transfers, did not respond to requests for comment by telephone. No one answered the door when Reuters visited the building where Primportbunker has its headquarters in the port city of Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast.

On the four voyages between Oct. 13, 2017, and May 7, 2018, the Tantal tanker gave its destination as the Chinese port of Ningbo when it set sail, according to port documents seen by Reuters and tracking data from financial data company Refinitiv." Exclusive: Despite sanctions, Russian tanker supplied fuel to North Korean ship-crew members | Reuters

Russia and China have both been doing this regularly for ages. One of our government agencies busted them a few years ago, pics and everything. It led to some increased sanctions.

Isn't Trump talking about easing sanctions on NK?

Ya know...because Putin told him to

he can easing sanctions on NK? but USA has to put extra sanctions on Muscovy, for destabilization of our planet

Economic sanctions on civilian commerce is completely illegal.
It is a war crime.

This is from US military manuals:
{...
III. Military Manuals
The US Naval Handbook (1995) states: “Neutral vessels and aircraft engaged in the carriage of qualifying relief supplies for the civilian population … should be authorized to pass through the blockade cordon.”

The US Naval Handbook (2007) states that “neutral vessels and aircraft engaged in the carriage of qualifying relief supplies for the civilian population … should be authorized to pass through the blockade cordon”.

...}
Customary IHL - Rule 53. Starvation as a Method of Warfare

So even in an actual declared war, it is illegal to interdict civilian commerce.
It is even worse to do so without a formal declaration of war.

So do you work for the North Koreans or the Russians?

The law is what works and is right.
I work for the law.
Economic embargoes are illegal and confiscating a ship that committed no criminal act is the action of a war criminal.

 

[Rigby5]

Perhaps it is because they are under no obligation to and haven’t any good reason to observe US sanctions that do not benefit them, or anybody else.

So keeping nuclear arms from a rogue country is not a good reason? Kim Jong-Un is a nutter and you know it. It benefits the planet to get him in line with those nuclear warheads.

One opinion about whether or not a leader or country is rogue, is not a basis in law.
I don't see North Korea illegally invading other countries like the US has done.
The whole rest of the world probably sees the US as being the rogue.
How would you feel if they decided to isolate us with economic sanctions?

It is clear that the US is the "nutter" after lying about Saddam having WMD.

 

[Litwin]

I wander what Trump is gonna do this time....
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Such transactions could have helped provide North Korea with an economic lifeline and eased the isolation of the secretive communist state, whose leader, Kim Jong Un, is due to meet U.S. President Donald Trump in Vietnam this week.

Primportbunker, the owner of the vessel the crew members said made the transfers, did not respond to requests for comment by telephone. No one answered the door when Reuters visited the building where Primportbunker has its headquarters in the port city of Vladivostok on Russia’s Pacific coast.

On the four voyages between Oct. 13, 2017, and May 7, 2018, the Tantal tanker gave its destination as the Chinese port of Ningbo when it set sail, according to port documents seen by Reuters and tracking data from financial data company Refinitiv." Exclusive: Despite sanctions, Russian tanker supplied fuel to North Korean ship-crew members | Reuters

Russia and China have both been doing this regularly for ages. One of our government agencies busted them a few years ago, pics and everything. It led to some increased sanctions.

no , the hans prefer to use soft power in foreign politic . Muscovy plays always macho man , raw games ...

 

[Lesh]

Russia and China have both been doing this regularly for ages. One of our government agencies busted them a few years ago, pics and everything. It led to some increased sanctions.

Isn't Trump talking about easing sanctions on NK?

Ya know...because Putin told him to

he can easing sanctions on NK? but USA has to put extra sanctions on Muscovy, for destabilization of our planet

Economic sanctions on civilian commerce is completely illegal.
It is a war crime.

This is from US military manuals:
{...
III. Military Manuals
The US Naval Handbook (1995) states: “Neutral vessels and aircraft engaged in the carriage of qualifying relief supplies for the civilian population … should be authorized to pass through the blockade cordon.”

The US Naval Handbook (2007) states that “neutral vessels and aircraft engaged in the carriage of qualifying relief supplies for the civilian population … should be authorized to pass through the blockade cordon”.

...}
Customary IHL - Rule 53. Starvation as a Method of Warfare

So even in an actual declared war, it is illegal to interdict civilian commerce.
It is even worse to do so without a formal declaration of war.

So do you work for the North Koreans or the Russians?

The law is what works and is right.
I work for the law.
Economic embargoes are illegal and confiscating a ship that committed no criminal act is the action of a war criminal.

Why not just GIVE NK nukes

 

[Lesh]

You claim to be American??