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Another vessel suspected of carrying North Korean coal found

The “Jin Long,” accused of having brought North Korean coal to the South on Oct. 27, 2017, departed from Nakhodka and docked in Pohang on Aug 4, 2018, along with black materials believed to be North Korean coal, and returned to the Nakhodka Port on Aug 7. While having freely entered domestic ports of Pohang, Incheon, Jinhae, and Janghang 20 times since last October, the "Jin Long" is presumed to have carried North Korean coal to South Korea from Russia, in breach of U.N. Security Council sanctions. An official from a shipping service agency that was in charge of the management of the "Jin Long"’s entry and departure said that the ship, carrying 5,100 tons of North Korean coal entered the Pohang port at 7:30 a.m. on Aug 4 and unloaded the coal. The "Jin Long" is one of the three ships reported to have carried North Korean coal, together with the Sky Angel and Rich Glory. The coal in the "Jin Long" was marked as Russian, and the ship passed through customs after submitting a certificate of origin, said the official. The "Jin Long" was initially scheduled to depart at 11 p.m. on Aug 8, but as its entry into Pohang and dropping off of coal were made public through the report of the Voice of America, U.S. government-funded radio broadcast source, the vessel changed its schedule and left for Russia in the afternoon without clear reasons. It has not been officially confirmed whether the "Jin Long" has always shipped North Korean coal since it was first suspected of having carried coal from Pyongyang on Oct. 27 last year. However, circumstantial evidence included a testimony that the North has exported its coal by disguising it as Russian coal. Report with photo: http://english.donga.com/List/3/01/26/1417639/1