Editor's note: Information on the now completed WIPO report is availablehere.

There's a new development in the story broken earlier this year by George Russell of Fox News. 

In April, Russell reported that the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), an agency of the United Nations, had quietly transferred technology to North Korea and Iran that could potentially be used to advance those regimes' nuclear and missile programs.  WIPO officials transferred the equipment without notifying its own member states, much less the U.N. committees charged with maintaining international sanctions on these two rogue nations.

Pressed by the U.S. State Department and Congress, WIPO Director General Francis Gurry announced that he would conduct an internal review of the transfers. Mr. Gurry also pledged to cooperate with a Congressional inquiry into whether the agency's actions had violated U.S. and U.N. sanctions. This promised cooperation has not been forthcoming.