The Sri Lankan government on Wednesday refuted recent media reports claiming the country imported North Korean textiles between October 2017 and March 2018, in breach of UN resolutions.

UN Security Council (UNSC) measures prohibit member states from importing DPRK-produced textiles, formerly one of Pyongyang’s top-earning sources of foreign trade revenue.

According to a notice from the Sri Lankan foreign ministry, the imports were misclassified and arose from confusion about the names of the two Koreas.

“There have been several instances where, at the point of data entry into the Customs Automated Data Processing System