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Oliver Hotham
Oliver Hotham was an NK News contributor based in Seoul, South Korea. Follow him on Twitter @oliverhotham.
Authorities in Khasan on the Russian-DPRK border last week seized a shipment of 129.1 kilos of "perfumery and cosmetics" before it could be brought into North Korea, the press service of Ussuriysk Customs said in a statement.
A routine inspection onboard the passenger car of a train, the statement said, saw authorities find "boxes on a shelf in two compartments with cosmetics and perfumery."