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Press release: FCO statement on UN action against breaching sanctions on North Korea

An FCO spokesperson said:

The UK welcomes the announcement by the UN’s 1718 Committee that it has listed three vessels for engaging in sanctions evasion. The vessels, the Shang Yuan Bao, New Regent and Kum Un San 3, are subject to deflagging and a port entry ban. Their activity demonstrates that North Korea continues to flout UN sanctions through prohibited ship-to-ship transfers.

The UK is contributing to the enforcement of UN sanctions through monitoring and surveillance activities to detect and prevent illicit ship-to-ship transfers in partnership with Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.

We are also concerned that recent US assessments indicate that North Korea has breached the UN-mandated cap on imports of refined petroleum through illicit transfers and we therefore call on all Member States to halt all sales and transfers of refined petroleum to North Korea.

Full enforcement of UN sanctions is vital to ensure we achieve the goal of complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of North Korea as agreed by the UN Security Council.

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Published 24 October 2018

Press release: FCO statement on UN action against North Korea sanctions breaches

An FCO spokesperson said:

The UK welcomes the announcement by the UN’s 1718 Committee that it has listed three vessels for engaging in sanctions evasion. The vessels, the Shang Yuan Bao, New Regent and Kum Un San 3, are subject to deflagging and a port entry ban. Their activity demonstrates that North Korea continues to flout UN sanctions through prohibited ship-to-ship transfers.

The UK is contributing to the enforcement of UN sanctions through monitoring and surveillance activities to detect and prevent illicit ship-to-ship transfers in partnership with Australia, Canada, France, Japan, New Zealand and the United States.

We are also concerned that recent US assessments indicate that North Korea has breached the UN-mandated cap on imports of refined petroleum through illicit transfers and we therefore call on all Member States to halt all sales and transfers of refined petroleum to North Korea.

Full enforcement of UN sanctions is vital to ensure we achieve the goal of complete, verifiable and irreversible denuclearisation of North Korea as agreed by the UN Security Council.

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News story: DASA Supplier Showcase Event

The aim of this event is to showcase innovations from our funded competitions to potential investors to increase the likelihood of exploitation but also to build an enduring relationship between DASA and the UKs investor community.

Suppliers will be exhibiting their innovations, funded through DASA competitions, to try to secure further funding and support from investors for potential exploitation.

This showcase event will feature a selection of the most mature and successful projects from across DASA competitions, covering a number of technology areas.

The evening will include 5 minute pitches from the exhibitors giving a taste of what they have done. There will then be a chance to see the projects in detail as each exhibitor will provide rolling pitches at their stands, and time for further networking and relationship building.

This will be an invite only event. If you are interested in attending as a potential investor or business mentor then please register your interest here. DASA will then be in touch with formal invites for the event.

Some of the suppliers showcasing at the event are:

Supplier	Project Title	Description
Aleph Insights Ltd	Adaptive Report Generation Assistant (ARGA)	A tool that allows organisations to make greater use of information that’s locked away as text in documents, emails and reports.
Bright Structures	EasiBridge – Next Generation Troop Protection, Access and Mobility Systems	A man-portable, long-span rescue/assault bridge.
Createc Technologies Ltd	SLATE – Crowd Monitoring and Alerts (SLATE-CMA)	This system enables crowd monitoring and threat detection in public areas.
DecisionLab	Prognostic Asset Condition capability using advanced machine learning for use in air, naval and other domains	Machine learning anomaly detection models to calculate a system health score based on solely sensor data.
Montvieux	Prediction Toolset	A Deep Learning based Artificial Intelligence capability that uses current and historical information to predict the change of control on the ground, in both space and time, between opposing groups fighting within an operational theatre.
Montvieux	Machine Learning Analytics as a Service (MLAaaS)	A Generative Adversarial Network (GAN) based Artificial Intelligence approach to the generation of labelled training data for use in third party imagery object detection and classification systems.
Sociedad Europea de Analisis Differencial of Movilidad SL	Two-Stage Differential Mobility Analyser for the Screening of Explosives and Incendiary Devices in Cargo	Development of a radically novel system for the detection of concealed explosives in air cargo by means of vapour sensing.
University College London	Electromagnetic imaging for aviation security – Phase 2	Scanner for luggage/parcels based on electromagnetic imaging with atomic magnetometers, thus not involving ionising radiation.