Russian authorities busted an imported shipment of North Korean peanuts in a rare case of compliance with U.N. sanctions, documents reviewed by NK News show, while revealing a new trade channel between the two states.

In May 2025, NK News reported that Vladivostok-based Imex Global planned to procure several dozen tons of peanuts from Korea Taedonggang Trading Corporation, despite U.N. resolutions that ban Pyongyang from exporting agricultural products, including produce.

The Vladivostok customs office in Oct. 2025 fined Imex Global for a 25-ton peanut shipment to the port of Nakhodka in May, a month after the company signed the $30,000