A North Korea-linked restaurant in the Mongolian capital appeared to still be closed during an NK News visit this month, despite a recent report stating it reopened in contravention of U.N. sanctions prohibiting overseas labor and DPRK-related joint ventures.

Pyongyang Papers, an anonymous blog that publishes information about alleged DPRK sanctions violations, reported in early June that the Pyongyang Baek Hwa Restaurant in Ulaanbaatar had reopened and that DPRK restaurant workers were “set to travel to Mongolia to work in the reopened restaurant.”

The report said business activity there directly supports the advancement of DPRK weapons of mass destruction