North Korea ramped up imports of fabric from China last month, official data shows, pointing to a likely lucrative effort to process textiles into other products for illicit export abroad.

Different types of fabrics led the DPRK’s imports in October at $20.74 million, up from $20.5 million the previous month, NK Pro analysis of China’s General Administration of Customs (GAC) data shows.

Hair came in as North Korea’s second-largest import for the month at $11.7 million, part of China’s long-standing outsourcing of wig production to the DPRK.

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