Kuala Lumpur - Malaysia pledged Monday to cooperate fully with the United States on allegations that North Korea was using its banks to channel financial transactions for weapons deals. US envoy Philip Goldberg met with Malaysian bank officials Monday, following a similar trip to China. Goldberg is due to return to Washington Wednesday.
Malaysian Foreign Minister Anifah Aman said the government "does not condone that kind of thing," and pledged to share any information it had with the US.
Over the weekend, South Korea's Yonhap news agency reported that North Korea sought payment through a bank in Malaysia for a suspected shipment of weapons to Myanmar.
Anifah did not confirm or comment on the report, but urged all parties to view the evidence before acting on possible "rumours."
"If the United States has any information available to them, they should give us that information so that we can act on it," he said. "If they have evidence, we would be most willing to work together with them."
Goldberg's visit to China and Malaysia followed a UN Security Council resolution adopted last month to ban the export of all weapons to North Korea, as well as all financial transactions that could contribute to its nuclear weapons programme.
