The Sentry released a new report, “Overt Affairs,” documenting how two North Korean businessmen openly busted international sanctions in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC). International sanctions programs on North Korea focus heavily on disrupting access to the international financial system due to the danger that revenue generated overseas could ultimately be used to fund the country’s nuclear weapons program. Private and public sector institutions in the DRC should have stopped this activity in its tracks, and the fact that they did not is more than a simple lapse. These frailties not only put the DRC’s banking sector and broader economy in significant danger, but they can also have global implications by undermining the effectiveness of international sanctions programs and the integrity of the international financial system.
The Atlantic Council’s Africa Center in partnership with The Sentry will host a virtual conversation on North Korean sanctions-busting in the DRC.
Register here: https://www.atlanticcouncil.org/event/sanctions-busting-in-the-drc/
Speakers
Floribert Anzuluni, Coordinator, Filimbi Citizens’ Movement; Managing Partner, Nyfalm & Associés
Darya Dolzikova, Research Analyst, Proliferation and Nuclear Policy Programme, Royal United Services Institute
Pierre Englebert, H. Russell Smith Professor of International Relations, Pomona College; Senior Fellow, Africa Center, Atlantic Council
Bronwyn Bruton, Director of Programs and Studies, Africa Center, Atlantic Council
John Dell’Osso, Senior Investigator, The Sentry