A website that for years anonymously published detailed investigations into North Korea’s global sanctions-evasion networks has quietly disappeared, raising questions about its origins, purpose and funding.

PyongyangPapers.com, which regularly posted the identities of companies, vessels and individuals allegedly involved in illicit trade with the DPRK, went offline between August and October 2025, according to monitoring by NK News. Its accounts on X and Facebook were deleted during the same period.

The site’s final article published in March allegedthat DPRK Kangguk Trading General Corporation planned to procure up to 200,000 tons of Russian diesel through Evromarket LLC, a