Seoul has extended its drive against North Korean revenue streams to the culinary arena by urging citizens to avoid restaurants across Asia that help Pyongyang secure foreign currency.
The call was intended to “block more thoroughly the flow of foreign currency into North Korea,” Seoul’s foreign ministry said yesterday, “given the concerns about it using hard currency for nuclear weapon and missile development”.
South Korea has adopted an unusually assertive stance towards Kim Jong Un’s regime since Pyongyang defied UN sanctions on February 7 to launch a satellite using ballistic missile technology, a month after carrying out its fourth nuclear test.