Correction: An earlier version of this article said a signing ceremony was held in Pyongyang, this has been amended to China.

Miniso, a Uniqlo-style Japanese-Chinese low-cost retail brand which recently opened the first ever foreign brand chain outlet in North Korea, could be in breach of UN Security Council sanctions, a leading Japanese expert told NK News on Thursday.

“The reported opening of Miniso’s new branch in Pyongyang appears to be in non-compliance with the sanction measures imposed by the United Nations Security Council Resolution 2321 adopted on November 30 in 2016,” Katsuhisa Furukawa, who served on the UN