North Korea shipments to Syria chemical arms agency intercepted - U.N. report

A man walks beside mass graves of people who died during chemical attacks on Zamalka, in Eastern Ghouta, a suburb of Damascus August 21, 2014. REUTERS/Bassam Khabieh

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons programme were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions violations.

The report by a panel of independent U.N. experts, which was submitted to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Monday, gave no details on when or where the interdictions occurred or what the shipments contained.