Efforts to sell North Korean liquor in South Korea could breach U.N. or U.S. sanctions and undermine the ROK’s regulatory framework, even though the products themselves are not prohibited under U.N. resolutions, experts told NK Pro on Monday.

Seoul’s unification ministry reportedly approved the import of around 3,500 bottles of liquor made from soybean paste and bog bilberry earlier this year, marking the first government-cleared commercial shipment of North Korean goods in several years.

But while the DPRK liquor was delivered to South Korea’s Incheon port in October, the Ministry