"North Korea's matsutake mushroom gift has no bearing on sanctions against North Korea"

▲ Kim Jong Eun President Song Ii Mushroom introduces the family Moon Jae-in will send 2 tons of pine mushrooms (2,000 kg), which were presented by Kim Jong-un, as gifts to Chuseok to the family of the Reunion family in commemoration of the "Pyongyang Summit 2018 North-South".
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In September, it was reported that North Korea, after the Pyongyang inter-Korean summit, was receiving a pine mushroom on the south side and was under investigation by the United Nations Security Council. view of sanctions against North Korea. The ministry rejected it as "unrelated to the sanctions against North Korea".

US Radio Free Asia (FRG) reported on Friday that sanctions against North Korea were under investigation for violating the sanctions for foreign high-end cars that appeared at the South Pyongyang summit in September. The station estimated that the vehicle was a Mercedes-Benz S-600.

In addition, according to the report, Moon Jae-in is investigating whether Pyongyang visited the creative company Matsudae and Kim presented two tons of matsutake mushrooms, in violation of the United Nations Security Council resolution.

A Foreign Ministry official said: "If a group of experts on sanctions against North Korea is requested, it will usually request data from the countries concerned.However, no group of experts n & # 39; Asked the Government to provide data on visits to the Mansudae creative society or the pine mushroom. " .

"The sanctions applied by North Korea essentially include agricultural products, but sanctions are being taken to prevent North Korea from deriving economic benefits from the export of agricultural products," he said. "The donations of pine mushrooms have nothing to do with the economic interests of North Korea, and that does not affect the sanctions against North Korea."

"Pine mushroom gift, no financial interest … Mercedes, already included"

"The details of the import of high-speed limousine in North Korea are already included in the report of the group of experts," said a senior official of the agency, who said that the FRG had been the subject of the investigation.

A group of North Korean experts said that the alleged violation of Security Council resolution 1718 (2006) in the February 2016 final report was the case of S-600 vehicles participating in the 2012 military parade and 2015. .

The report estimates that the car was produced in Europe, modified in the United States, and then transported to China via China. A Chinese company, which then seemed to be involved in the import of this vehicle, did not respond to the investigation of the group of experts, who stated that the investigation had completed.

If the FRG reports that the car being investigated is correct, it is possible that the S-600 car resumed the investigation that had not been conducted due to new news. However, it is possible that vehicles other than those estimated by RFA are subject to investigation.

During a visit to Pyongyang by US Secretary of State Mark Pompei in October, part of the vehicle that Kim Jong Eun seems to have manufactured while a department store had been captured on a photo published by the Department of State. He was badyzed as a Rolls-Royce ghost and it was recognized for the first time that Kim was using this model.

▲ Group of Experts on the sanctions imposed on North Korea by the United Nations Security Council concerning the 2015 final report on Mercedes-S 600 (submitted in February 2016).
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