Center for Advanced Defense Studies

Published purpose

This project aims to fund the Center for Advanced Defense Studies (C4ADS) to strengthen international capacity to identify, prevent and respond to attempts by North Korea to evade UN Security Council resolution sanctions. Project activities include: (1) developing a web-based platform to consolidate available open source information on North Korean sanctions evasion; (2) strengthening C4ADS' capacity to produce reports on entities known to have supported North Korean maritime sanctions evasion; (3) producing capacity-building resources for compliance and regulatory experts on maritime sanctions enforcement; and (4) establishing a mechanism that allow experts to request rapid-reaction investigations on entities suspected of being involved in North Korean sanctions evasion.