Posted on 12/27/2017 6:59:38 AM PST by Strac6
China did not export any oil products to North Korea in November as U.S. sanctions against the isolated country continue take effect, according to a report Tuesday from Reuters.
The move comes as North Korea ratchets up ongoing nuclear and missile programs despite years of U.N. resolutions prohibiting the actions. U.N. Security Council imposed a new batch of limits of oil products earlier this month to the communist country.
China did not export any gasoline, jet fuel, diesel or fuel oil, or any other petroleum products to North Korea last month, according to the report, that relied on General Administration of Customs data for its conclusion.
“This is a natural outcome of the tightening of the various sanctions against North Korea,” said Cai Jian, an expert on North Korea at Fudan University in Shanghai. The move “reflects China’s stance,” he added.
China completely shut off the oil spigots to North Korea in 2003 for three days after Pyongyang, North Korea’s capital, launched a missile into waters between the Korean Peninsula and Japan. China is the main source for the country’s oil, though it does receive shipments from Russia.
The data did not reveal if China still sells crude oil to Pyongyang, because Beijing has not disclosed its crude exports to North Korea for several years. Industry insiders believe China supplies 3.8 million barrels of unrefined crude to North Korea through a dilapidated pipeline connecting the countries.
Oil companies inside China are also steering clear of North Korea. China National Petroleum, for instance, put fuel sales on hold to Pyongyang because it is “no longer worth the risks,” according to various media reports from earlier this year.
Regular compliance checks to determine whether a company or firm is in violation of sanctions are increasing the pressure, especially in China, that accounts for almost 90 percent of all North Korean trade
This was even before the last round of UN sanctions. Last weeks new unanimous Security Council sanctions would make re-starting such exports exceptionally "not convenient."
Certainly there will be violations, at-sea transfers, etc, but nothing like the history of the dozens of daily oil-laden trains entering the DPRK from the PRC, and the Russians do not begin to have the transportation network to pick up the slack.
We shall see.
Blockade the ####s.
Mid-ocean? That’s like FDR’s offer to Churchill in Darkest Hour. Haul our fighter planes to within a mile of the Canadian border. The Canadians THEN cross the border to take delivery/transfer using HORSES! Brits were in deep doo doo at the time.
So, the picture of the Chinese oil tanker in North Korea was an old picture?
This would never deliver 10% of the oil DPRK needs on a daily basis.
There is evidence this is happening.
That will cause civilians to freeze, but it won’t hurt Ki or his army.
Korea is astoundingly cold.
Kim, not Ki.
http://www.newsweek.com/russia-north-korea-oil-imports-kim-jong-un-united-states-736144
Russia is playing the same role she did prior to the Korean war - encouraging the dictator in North Korea.
Russia can be expected to do as it did should hostilities break out in Korea again - hope that China steps in and puts the U.S. and China in conflict. Russia’s border with North Korea is tiny compared to China’s border with North Korea, so Russia knows U.S. military action with South Korea will be more China’s business than Russia’s; so why not help North Korea instigate trouble that won’t cost Russia much.
“Chinese tankers can transfer to NK’s in mid ocean.”
I wonder. It ain’t that easy, you know.
Russia lacks the wherewithall to deal with this set of facts and events
Trump and Xi will solve the Kim problem
President Xi Jinping is the wise grown up in the region...
North Korea might not like it, but Jinping is attempting to save their lives until their ‘leader’ grows up...
“North Korea might not like it”
There really isn’t a “North Korea” in the sense you mean here.
L’état, c’est Kim: the norks do an outstanding job of treating the NK people like mushrooms. It’s frightening to contemplate deprogramming all those insane robots.
Yes, the State is Kim and Kim is the State... but there are millions of other people living in that hellhole... If they can be saved that would be best.
But if Kim makes the decision to kill a few hundred million Americans - we WILL take him out....
“but there are millions of other people living in that hellhole... If they can be saved that would be best.”
Absolutely.
“But if Kim makes the decision to kill a few hundred million Americans - we WILL take him out....”
Tango Foxtrot Lima.
I’ve seen it done on the Great Lakes.
I never sailed the Great Lakes, but I’ve done it innumerable times on the open sea, and underway replenishment there is a very involved evolution.
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