{"id":44779,"date":"2020-05-14T10:32:21","date_gmt":"2020-05-14T01:32:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/?p=44779"},"modified":"2026-04-06T13:57:27","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:57:27","slug":"north-korea-appears-resuming-mineral-exports-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-korea-appears-resuming-mineral-exports-china\/","title":{"rendered":"N. Korea appears to be resuming mineral exports to China"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The North Korean government appears to be resuming state-sanctioned exports of mineral resources to China as fears of COVID-19 have started to wane, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cShips with minerals have been spotted departing from Nampo, Songrim, and Haeju ports and heading to China since last week,\u201d a China-based source told Daily NK on Wednesday.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">From the second week of May, North Korean authorities have allowed trading companies affiliated with the Korean People\u2019s Army (KPA) to resume imports and exports, the source said, adding that the companies have focused on exporting the country\u2019s mineral resources.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.un.org\/press\/en\/2016\/sc12267.doc.htm\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Resolution 2270<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">, which was passed by the United Nations Security Council in 2016, bans North Korea from exporting mineral resources.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Yet North Korea has continued to export these resources by conducting illegal transshipment (containers are transferred from one vessel to another in an intermediate location) or by dismantling the automatic identification system (AIS) on its cargo vessels.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/north-koreas-coal-smuggling-continues-full-speed-ahead\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in Oct. 2019 that shipments of North Korean coal were spotted being unloaded at Huludao Port in China\u2019s Liaoning Province.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Last year, most of North Korea&#8217;s exports consisted of coal despite the UN ban on such activities.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK understands that other exports have included iron ore, magnesia clinker and other colored minerals &#8211; all at the request of Chinese traders.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAfter the minerals are unloaded in China, the Chinese pay North Korean trading companies with goods needed in the country, not cash,\u201d the China-based source said.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cThis time I understand North Korea received some things it really needed including 300 tons of nitrogenous fertilizer and 800 tons of ammonia fertilizer, along with crude oil and Chinese corn. These were imported into North Korea over the course of several shipments,\u201d he added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">North Korea has suffered from a shortage of basic consumer goods after the closure of the Sino-North Korean border in late January and the restart of this state-sanctioned trade is providing some relief, the source added.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">The restart of mineral exports by North Korea into China may be linked with China\u2019s recent move to provide North Koreans with special privileges to enter the country.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Daily NK <\/span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/english\/china-exempts-n-korean-traders-from-ban-on-foreign-arrivals\/\"><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">reported<\/span><\/a><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> in early April that North Koreans approved by both the North Korean and Chinese governments were granted temporary entry visas to enter China.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">In exchange for such privileges, North Korea has reportedly entered into an <\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">exclusive agreement<\/span><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\"> with China to provide the country with anthracite coal, gold, silver, copper, zinc and other colored minerals at a discount of 40% or more.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">Gold is one of the minerals North Korea has been exporting to China, Daily NK\u2019s source in China further reported.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400;\">\u201cAbout 20 tons of gold were [recently] smuggled to Dalian in Liaoning Province, China,\u201d the source noted, adding, \u201cIt\u2019s not clear what North Korea received from China in exchange for the gold but it\u2019s very likely that the gold was traded for luxury goods.\u201d <\/span><\/p>\n<p><em>*Translated by Violet Kim<\/em><\/p>\n<p><i>Please direct any comments or questions about this article to dailynkenglish@uni-media.net.<\/i><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailynk.com\/%E5%8C%97-%EC%A7%80%ED%95%98%EC%9E%90%EC%9B%90-%E4%B8%AD%EC%97%90-%EB%B0%80%EC%88%98%EC%B6%9C-%EC%9E%AC%EA%B0%9C-%EC%BD%94%EB%A1%9C%EB%82%98%EC%97%90%EB%8F%84-%EB%B0%80%EC%B0%A9-%EA%B0%95\/\"><em>Read in Korean<\/em><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The North Korean government appears to be resuming state-sanctioned exports of mineral resources to China as fears of COVID-19 have started to wane, Daily NK has learned.\u00a0 \u201cShips with minerals have been spotted departing from Nampo, Songrim, and Haeju ports and heading to China since last week,\u201d a China-based source told Daily NK on Wednesday.\u00a0 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":128,"featured_media":42553,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"wikipediapreview_detectlinks":true,"footnotes":""},"categories":[67,645],"tags":[1007,1052,3238,3240],"class_list":["post-44779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-news","category-economy","tag-imports","tag-exports","tag-north-korea-foreign-policy","tag-maritime"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.7 (Yoast SEO v27.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>N. 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