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Colin Zwirko
Colin Zwirko is a Senior Analytic Correspondent for NK News based in Seoul. Follow him on Twitter @ColinZwirko.
A Chinese company participating in this week’s international trade fair in Pyongyang is offering “custom order [North] Korean language mobile phones” at its booth, an image obtained by NK News shows.
The open offer could hold implications for the enforcement of current UN sanctions prohibiting such trade, and provides a window into how state-sanctioned smartphone trade may be occurring between China and the DPRK.