North Korea has rejected a recent report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) on the country’s illicit overseas worker schemes, branding the multinational body a U.S.-backed “ghost group” and characterizing its efforts to scrutinize Pyongyang’s economic ties as unlawful interference. In a statement released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday, […]
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Pyongyang dismisses the 11-nation body as lacking UN authority and accuses its members of serving Washington’s agenda

North Korean workers at a garment factory in the Rason Special Economic Zone | Image: NK News (March 2019)
North Korea has rejected a recent report by the Multilateral Sanctions Monitoring Team (MSMT) on the country’s illicit overseas worker schemes, branding the multinational body a U.S.-backed “ghost group” and characterizing its efforts to scrutinize Pyongyang’s economic ties as unlawful interference.
In a statement released by the state-run Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) on Monday, an unidentified spokesperson for North Korea’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs castigated the 11-nation monitoring mechanism as a “plot-breeding organization which distorts normal as abnormal and brands legal as illegal”.
The statement came almost a week after the MSMT released its third reporton DPRK
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