A Chinese company participating in this week’s international trade fair in Pyongyang is offering “custom order [North] Korean language mobile phones” at its booth, an image obtained by NK News shows.

The open offer could hold implications for the enforcement of current UN sanctions prohibiting such trade, and provides a window into how state-sanctioned smartphone trade may be occurring between China and the DPRK.

This trade was possibly evident elsewhere at the 15th Pyongyang Autumn International Trade Fair, with other images showing a similar phone as that displayed by the Chinese company branded as a new product from a North