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The report, which tracks how the top-end Mercedes-Benz Maybach passenger car, which was banned for export to North Korea, entered Pyongyang last year. It was a complex route through five countries for four months.

Washington correspondent Kim Soo Hyeong.

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Kim Jung Eun's Mercedes-Benz is a top-class car with a price of over 600 million won per unit.

The UN Security Council has banned exports to North Korea as a luxury item.

The New York Times and the US Advanced Research Center tracked the two North Korean vehicles.

It was the port of Rotterdam in the Netherlands in June last year.

After arriving in Dalian, China, the car arrived at Busan via Osaka, Japan.

It was taken on the cargo ship DN5505 from Busan Port and moved to the port of Nakhodka, Russia, and then it entered Pyongyang in October last year as a freighter in Vladivostok.

It is a route through 5 countries for 4 months.

The DN5505, which departed from Busan Port, turned off the automatic vessel identification device for 18 days to avoid tracking.

The cargo vessel claimed to have loaded coal at the port of Nakhodka, but as soon as it entered Pohang in February, it was detained and investigated by the Korean government.

The UN Security Council on North Korea has pointed out that Kim Jong Eun 's loyalists, who appeared in the summit in March' s annual report, are violating sanctions.

(Video coverage: Oh, Jung Sik, video editing: Chang Hyunki)