North Korea’s Red Cross was unable to conduct most of its planned activities in the first half of 2023 due to a lack of funding and inability to transfer cash, the country’s Red Cross Society has revealed in a new report.

In the 2023 mid-year report published Monday, North Korea’s local Red Cross chapter provided a rare admission of the negative effects of the country’s self-inflicted pandemic border controls, which took effect in Jan. 2020 and have only been slightly eased since last July.