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Source: https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/world/middleeast/egypt-north-korea-sanctions-arms-dealing.html
North Korea's Cairo Embassy Doubles as Regional Arms Dealership
(New York Times) Declan Walsh - Egypt has purchased North Korean weapons and allowed North Korean diplomats to use their Cairo embassy as a base for military sales across the region, violating international sanctions, U.S. and UN officials say. A North Korean freighter intercepted off the coast of Egypt in 2016 was found to be carrying 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades to Egypt's main state weapons conglomerate. Egyptian officials said they were cutting military ties to North Korea, reducing the size of its Cairo embassy and monitoring the activities of North Korean diplomats. But UN inspectors and North Korean defectors say the Cairo embassy doubles as a regional arms dealership for covert sales of North Korean missiles and cut-price Soviet-era military hardware across North Africa and the Middle East.