LAUGHING AT THE USELESS UN

  In April 2018, a ship carrying $3 million worth of coal slipped into Indonesian waters with its identification transmitter switched off and its flag hidden from view.
  Acting on a tip, Indonesia’s Navy detained the vessel, which identified itself as the “Wise Honest” from Sierra Leone. But when inspectors went aboard, they found two dozen crew members and registration documents indicating a different country of origin — North Korea.
  The interdiction, detailed in a March 5 report by U.N. sanctions monitors, is part of a worrying rise in coal exports from the hermit kingdom — exports that violate U.N. sanctions and help finance Pyongyang’s nuclear-weapons program, the monitors said.