The U.S. State Department made an “official apology” to North Korea over an incident that saw U.S. officials seize a diplomatic package from a DPRK delegation at John F. Kennedy International Airport in June, the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) reported late Tuesday.

Pyongyang reported on June 18 that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) had “literally mugged” a delegation of North Korean diplomats at JFK International Airport in New York on June 16 and “forcibly took away a diplomatic package.”

The accident took place as a group of North Koreans – led by Ambassador Ri Hung Sik of