UNSC to inspect North Korean arms ship

United Nations (UN) Security Council Sanctions Committee would inspect Panama seized North Korean cargo ship which violated a UN arms embargo on North Korea by carrying weapons. Britain's Permanent Representative to UN Mark Lyall Grant, supporting Panama over seizing North Korean ship, said "UN Security Council Sanctions Committee will inspect the weapons carried from Cuba to North Korea illegally." Panama had called on the United Nations Security Council to investigate a North Korean ship caught smuggling arms from Cuba, piling more pressure on Pyongyang for a possible breach of UN sanctions. UN Security Council has imposed four rounds of increasingly tougher sanctions against North Korea since its first nuclear test in 2006. According to the sanctions, all UN member states are prohibited from directly or indirectly supplying, selling or transferring all arms, missiles or missile systems and the equipment and technology to make them to North Korea, with the exception of small arms and light weapons.