Six North Korean citizens working illegally in one DPRK-run restaurant in Thailand were arrested last November and deported ahead of a late-December UN-mandated deadline, according to a sanctions implementation report released Wednesday.

Their status as illegal workers was discovered after Thailand conducted inspections on three North Korean restaurants in the country on November 29, the report said.

“All of them were arrested on charges of illegally working in Thailand and fined,” it added, before being “deported to the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea on 6 December 2019.” 

The Thai mission to the UN also said that an additional 26 North