Taiwan on Tuesday said it would cease the employment of all North Korean workers by the end of the month, following a U.S. sanctions enforcement advisory published a day earlier which listed the country as using North Korean laborers.

Washington’s advisory included a sectoral breakdown of North Korean workers in various countries and listed Taiwan’s seafood industry as an employer of DPRK overseas workers.

UN resolutions currently prohibit member states from providing new work visas to North Koreans and also requires them to repatriate all DPRK nationals working abroad within 24 months of December last year.

The Taiwanese government made