TOKYO — Researchers at multiple Japanese institutions unknowingly co-authored papers with North Korean peers in a potential violation of United Nations sanctions, Nikkei has found, highlighting the difficulty of enforcement amid a rise in cross-border research.
Nikkei examined data on roughly 97 million documents on Scopus, a database for academic publications, seeking joint works by Japanese and North Korean researchers since the U.N. toughened sanctions on Pyongyang at the end of 2016.