SEOUL (Reuters) - North Korea imported at least $640 million (490 million pounds) worth of luxury goods from China last year, in defiance of U.N. sanctions outlawing such trade over North Korea's nuclear and missile programmes, a South Korean lawmaker said on Monday.
The United States has urged strict implementation of sanctions as part of a "maximum pressure" campaign which Washington has credited with bringing impoverished North Korea to the negotiating table.
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