The Defense Post

Canada has announced its plan to send a CP-140 Aurora maritime patrol detachment to Japan to support a multinational security effort in response to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea’s illicit activities.

For four weeks, the Royal Canadian Air Force aircraft and its team will monitor suspected movements in violation of UN Security Council (UNSC) sanctions on North Korea.

The sanctions, imposed since 2006, aim to suspend Pyongyang’s weapons of mass destruction programs, ballistic missile launches, and nuclear weapon tests that have been deemed a threat to the UN’s Non-Proliferation of Nuclear Weapons Treaty.

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