Russia's North Korean restaurant reopened Change form and keep foreign currency acquisition means or February 2 10:54
Following a UN resolution to repatriate North Korean workers working abroad, a North Korean restaurant in Moscow, Russia, which had been closed since the end of last year, hired foreign workers from Central Asia and other countries on January 1. It turned out that business was resumed. It seems that the means of earning foreign currency has been maintained just by changing the form of the restaurant.
North Korean workers working abroad are to be repatriated by the end of December last year under a UN sanctions resolution.
In response to this, the North Korean restaurant in Moscow, Russia, had been closed since the end of last year, but it turned out that it resumed business on the day, about one and a half months later.
According to the people involved, the menu of the store is the same, but customers are served by women such as Kyrgyzstan in Central Asia instead of women from North Korea, and cooking is done by a man of Russian nationality. People are not working.
However, recently, NHK interviews confirmed that frequent officials from the North Korean embassy in Moscow were coming and going to the restaurant. It seems that they have maintained the means of earning foreign currency.
On the other hand, the Russian government has said that North Korean workers are being repatriated in accordance with UN resolutions, but in fact many are likely to stay on tourism and student visas, and some It is also pointed out that they continue working.