The Danish aid organization Mission East was granted a sanctions exemption this week for its ongoing work to address food shortages in North Korea, the UN reported Thursday. 

Granted on November 6 by the 1718 Committee in charge of managing UN Security Council sanctions on the DPRK, the exemption will allow Mission East to bring otherwise-prohibited large agricultural machinery into North Korea. 

Their work, according to the exemption letter, is “aimed at providing vulnerable populations suffering from acute food shortage with lifesaving assistance.”

It will “allow for the procurement and import of agricultural machinery into the DPRK required for the