Daily Memo: North Korea Sanctions on Life Support, Hamas Chief Visits Tehran

Russia appears to be sending oil directly to the Kim regime, defying U.N. sanctions.

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Sanctions busters. Russia has started direct oil shipments to North Korea, a violation of U.N. sanctions against Kim Jong Un’s regime, according to analysis of satellite images by the Royal United Services Institute, a British think tank. So far this month at least five North Korean tankers have collected oil products from Russia’s Vostochny port […]

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