A photo taken on November 21, 2017 shows cranes and coal at the RasonConTrans coal port at Rajin harbour in the Rason Special Economic Zone.
A mountain of North Korean coal — which would once have been bound for China — is piled up on one side of the barrier in Rajin harbour, stranded by a UN ban on coal exports by Pyongyang. On the very next dock, around two million tonnes of Russian coal have come in by train and been shipped on to China this year by Russian port operator RasonConTrans. Its activities are specifically excluded from the UN Security Council’s sanctions resolutions but attempts have been made to use it as a way to bypass the restrictions. / AFP PHOTO / Ed JONES / To go with AFP story NKorea-Russia-China-transport-coal-diplomacy by Sebastien Berger (Photo credit should read ED JONES/AFP/Getty Images)
