WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A North Korean citizen accused by the United States of laundering money to circumvent U.S. and U.N. sanctions over his country's nuclear weapons program appeared in a U.S. court on Monday after extradition from Malaysia.
The U.S. Justice Department said Mun Chol Myong, a businessman it said was affiliated North Korea's primary intelligence organization, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, was the first North Korean ever extradited to the United States.
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