Pyongyang “has not stopped its nuclear and missile programs and continued to defy Security Council resolutions through a massive increase in illicit ship-to-ship transfers of petroleum products, as well as through transfers of coal at sea during 2018,” the experts wrote in the 149-page report, according to Reuters. A summary of the report by experts monitoring U.N. sanctions against North Korea, which was sent to the Security Council Friday night and obtained by The Associated Press, said North Korea is also violating sanctions by transferring coal at sea and flouting an arms embargo and financial sanctions. The panel of experts said North Korea attempted to sell small arms and light weapons and other military equipment via foreign intermediaries, including Syrian arms traffickers in the case of Houthi Shiite rebels in Yemen as well as Libya and Sudan. “Prohibited military cooperation with the Syrian Arab Republic has continued unabated,” the experts wrote in the report. Many diplomats and analysts credit the sanctions, which have sharply cut North Korea's exports and imports, with helping promote the thaw in relations between North Korea and South Korea as well as the June meeting between U.S. President Donald Trump and North Korean leader Kim Jong-un. “They’re going to continue working together towards complete and total denuclearisation,” Ms Sanders

Mr Trump said in that tweet to Kim: “I look forward to seeing you soon!”

The Republican firebrand has said repeatedly the deal has been positive since North Korea has maintained a freeze on nuclear and missile tests and has begun returning US war dead remains. The United States said last month that North Korea is illegally smuggling refined petroleum products into the country beyond the quota of 500,000 barrels per year allowed under U.N. sanctions.
A report commissioned by the United Nations Security Council concludes that North Korea has not stopped its nuclear program and that it attempted to sell military supplies to Libya, Sudan and Yemen.