Attorneys representing the only North Korean citizen currently in custody in the U.S. agreed to delay further deliberations until September, as prosecutors claimed they are pursuing “substantial” new evidence. 

Mun Chol Myong was arrested by Malaysian authorities in 2019 for alleged money laundering on behalf of the North Korean government and was extradited to the U.S. in March 2021.

Pyongyang warned Washington it would “pay a due price” for the extradition and officially cut ties with Malaysia.

A status conference on Mun’s case was set to be held via video conference with a judge on July 21, but a