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ROK lawmaker accuses website of allowing illegal sale of North Korean art

But expert says private sale of decades-old paintings is unlikely to violate sanctions imposed after they were imported

A South Korean lawmaker has accused the country's largest online platform of potentially violating U.N. Security Council (UNSC) sanctions and domestic law by allowing the sale of North Korean artwork on its showing site.

But one expert said the sale of the decades-old DPRK paintings on the Naver web portal is unlikely to actually violate sanctions, so long as the works of art were imported after the implementation of sanctions and their sale does not fund the regime.

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