Australia, Canada to join surveillance on N. Korea sanctions evaders

Japan said Saturday Australia and Canada will join the multilateral effort to monitor North Korean attempts to evade U.N. Security Council sanctions resolutions through maritime smuggling operations.The Foreign Ministry said the two countries will deploy patrol aircraft to the U.S. Kadena Air Base in Okinawa Prefecture. They are expected to engage in monitoring and surveillance activities to prevent the ship-to-ship transfer of goods at sea by North Korea in waters around the Japanese archipelago and the Korean Peninsula as well as in the East China Sea."Japan welcomes these activities from…READ FULL ARTICLE