North Korea media recently claimed the country was recycling waste oil, a complicated process that removes impurities from wasted oils for reuse either as fuels or lubricants, at a facility near the country’s largest port area in Nampho.

The announcement came in an August report from the DPRK’s state-run Pyongyang Times, a foreign-language newspaper often circulated around hotels or on flights into the country.

That article highlighted how a facility called the Nampho Fuel Oil Factory reclaims waste oil from ships a converting it back into usable oil products, though it steers clear