by CP for NK News, Beijing

Across the road from the tree-lined North Korean embassy in Beijing are a number of stores selling what can only be described as luxury items. It has previously been reported that these shops are visited regularly by elite North Korean customers eager to spend money on luxury items unavailable to them in the DPRK.

But with some viewing China’s recent publication of a list of items banned for export to North Korea as evidence that Beijing is taking a stronger line against Pyongyang, are these stores really profiting from an influx of wealthy North Korean