FacebookTwitterEmailLinkedin A Royal New Zealand Navy task group has joined international efforts to enforce United Nations sanctions on North Korea, conducting maritime patrols in international waters in the Yellow Sea and East China Sea to monitor vessels suspected of sanctions evasion. New Zealand is a member of the Pacific Security Maritime Exchange, a multinational partnership focused on identifying and reporting activities intended to circumvent UN Security Council measures targeting North Korea’s nuclear and ballistic missile programmes. RelatedNews Sanctions pressure drives growth in Russia’s flag registry, CREA finds Yemen urges international action over Houthi advances in the Red Sea var jnews_module_21383715_0_6aba4e581456c = {"header_icon":"","first_title":"Related","second_title":"News","url":"","header_type":"heading_8","header_background":"","header_secondary_background":"","header_text_color":"","header_line_color":"","header_accent_color":"","header_filter_category":"","header_filter_author":"","header_filter_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_post_tag":"","header_filter_cpt_tribe_events_cat":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_category":"","header_filter_cpt_web_story_tag":"","header_filter_text":"All","sticky_post":false,"sticky_post_filter":false,"post_type":"post","content_type":"all","sponsor":false,"number_post":"2","post_offset":0,"unique_content":"unique1","include_post":"","included_only":false,"exclude_post":"21383715","include_category":"","exclude_category":"","include_author":"","include_tag":"280,502,483,2098,903,3803","exclude_tag":"","exclude_visited_post":false,"post_tag":"","tribe_events_cat":"","web_story_category":"","web_story_tag":"","sort_by":"latest","show_date":"","date_format":"default","date_format_custom":"Y\/m\/d","pagination_mode":"disable","pagination_nextprev_showtext":"","pagination_number_post":"2","pagination_scroll_limit":0,"ads_type":"disable","ads_position":1,"ads_random":"","ads_image":"","ads_image_tablet":"","ads_image_p