North Korean leader Kim Jong Un visits the Central Zoo, where projects are under way to build new buildings and remodel the existing ones, in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) March 12, 2014. REUTERS/KCNA
SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United Nations report issued on Tuesday said.
It said North Korea was also making use of more complicated financial countermeasures and techniques "pioneered by drug- trafficking organisations" that made tracking the isolated state's purchase of prohibited goods more difficult.
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