South Korea sanctions Russian cargo ships Lady R and Angara over North Korea arms trade

South Korea has sanctioned two Russian ships, the Lady R and the Angara, which it says carried military supplies between Russia and North Korea, The Korea Times reports. Seoul also listed two Russian companies, Intellekt and Sodeistvie, and their heads, Sergey Kozlov and Aleksandr Panfilov, accusing them of helping North Korean IT workers enter, stay and work in Russia illegally. The measures took effect on 3 April. The South Korean Foreign Ministry said arms trading between the two countries was a clear breach of UN Security Council resolutions that threatened peace and stability beyond the Korean peninsula.

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