Does the UN have proof Egypt was buying arms from Pyongyang? A UN investigation into a shipment of North Korean weapons seized while trying to sail through Egyptian waters in August revealed that Egypt was the illegal shipment’s final destination. The investigation “uncovered a complex arrangement in which Egyptian business executives ordered mns of USD-worth of North Korean rockets for the country’s military while also taking pains to keep the transaction hidden,” Joby Warrick writes for the Washington Post, citing unnamed US officials. The shipment was allegedly the largest and most recent of several “clandestine” transactions that prompted the USD to withhold nearly USD 300 mn in aid to Egypt, in a bid to apply more pressure on Pyongyang by forcing the Middle Eastern country to cut ties and stop supporting Kim Jong Un’s “booming illicit arms trade.”