The North Korean Embassy in Bangladesh has closed, a Bangladeshi official told NK News on Monday, the latest in a spate of DPRK mission closures over the past month.

The embassy in Dhaka is the DPRK’s sixth diplomatic mission to close since late October following those in Spain, Hong Kong, Uganda, Angola and Nepal. A Japanese media outlet previously reported that Pyongyang plans to close over a dozen embassies in total.

“They informed us that for better relocation purposes and for better operational purposes worldwide, they are going to close down a few of their missions,”