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By Louis Charbonneau and Michelle Nichols UNITED NATIONS, Feb 9 (Reuters) – A U.N.-blacklisted North Korean shipping company continues to evade sanctions

By Sam Kim (Bloomberg) — North Korea will launch a long-range rocket to put a satellite in orbit this month, a United Nations agency said, in a move that

BY JU-MIN PARK AND KAORI KANEKO (Reuters) Fishing boats carrying decomposed corpses have washed ashore in Japan in recent weeks, leading to speculation

  SINGAPORE, July 24 (Reuters) – Singapore-based Senat Shipping said on Friday it had done nothing illegal and that it was unreasonable to be put on

A test-firing drill of anti-ship missiles at sea is seen in this undated photo released by North Korea’s Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on June 15,

A U.N.-blacklisted North Korean shipping firm has renamed most of its vessels in a bid to disguise their origin and continues illicit shipments in violation of

North Korea has test-fired a new anti-ship cruise missile, images released by state media on Saturday showed, demonstrating the increased capability of the

By Sam Kim Oct. 7 (Bloomberg) — Naval boats of North Korea and South Korea exchanged warning fire near their disputed sea border in the Yellow Sea, days

By Sam Kim Sept. 15 (Bloomberg) — North Korea has tried to enhance its submarines to make them capable of firing ballistic missiles as it seeks to boost

Japan on Friday froze the assets of the operator of a North Korean ship seized for smuggling

A U.N. Security Council committee on Monday blacklisted the operator of a North Korean ship, which was seized near the Panama Canal last year for smuggling

A North Korean cargo ship has run aground in the Gulf of Mexico after sailing from Cuba, according to

A Panamanian court on Friday ordered the release of three North Korean ship officers who were jailed after they were caught smuggling Cuban weapons through

North Korea's "Supreme Leader" Kim Jong-un visited a naval base recently to tour a staple of the People's Navy's subsea warfare capabilities: a rusted-up,

No one was hurt tonight when U.S. forces, at the request of both the Libyan and Cypriot governments, boarded and took control of the commercial tanker Morning

North Korea said the tanker violated its laws, and a contract with the Alexandria-based company by carrying contraband

Libya's navy has lost contact with an oil tanker that loaded oil in a rebel-held port and has now slipped into Egyptian waters after being attacked by Libya's

Update: Libya’s Navy has reportedly fired upon the tanker, causing some damage to the vessel, and Italian vessels are helping to secure the

Libyan navy and allied militia forces have surrounded a North Korea-flagged tanker just outside an eastern port held by rebels, a navy spokesman said on

Panama’s Foreign Minister, Fernando Nunez Fabrega, announced today that the government of North Korea has agreed to pay a $667 million thousand fine to