This file photo taken on April 11, 2018 shows a performance troupe from Russia arriving at the opening of the "April Spring Friendship Art Festival" outside a theatre in Pyongyang. - The ties between Pyongyang and Moscow, once its most important ally, go back decades. - AFP
WASHINGTON (AFP): The US Treasury placed two entities that either send or help send North Korean workers to Russia on its sanctions blacklist Thursday (Nov 19) for involvement in what it called "forced labour."
The Treasury placed sanctions on Korea Cholsan General Trading Corporation, a North Korean company operating in Russia, and Russian construction company Mokran LLC.
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