An NGO with offices in the U.S. and South Korea was earlier this month granted an exemption from international sanctions, the website of the UN’s 1718 committee showed, allowing the organization to ship medical equipment required for its work at the Pyongyang Third Hospital.

SAM Care International — which conducts work at a hospital in the North Korean capital and in the Sino-DPRK border city of Dandong, among other projects — made the request for an exemption in January, according to a letter uploaded to the website of the UN’s 1718 committee late last week.

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