South Korea, U.S. and other countries call for designation of N.K. sanction breaching vessels

A briefing is under way at the U.N. Security Council at U.N. headquarters in New York on April 30. [YONHAP]

South Korea, the United States, the European Union's diplomatic service and eight other countries on Friday issued a joint statement calling for a U.N. panel to act swiftly to designate vessels accused of violating U.N. sanctions against North Korea.

The governments of South Korea, the United States, Australia, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan, New Zealand, Britain and the European External Action Service issued the statement, demonstrating unity against the North's evasion of U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions banning the export of its coal and iron ore.

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They welcomed last month's briefing on Pyongyang's sanctions-evasion activities by the Open Source Centre, a non-profit entity using open data to study various issues.