An apparent Chinese fuel cut off to North Korea entered its sixth month in March, according to recently released figures seen by Reuters.

The numbers from China’s General Administration of Customs recorded no gasoline or diesel shipments to the DPRK, though a small amount of other oil products did trickle across the border.

But despite the absence of fuel from official figures, there are no reports of shortages of supply issues within North Korea, while fuel prices in Pyongyang recently fell by 20 percent.

“If no refined fuel or crude oil imports were really received by the DPRK for the