The man confessed to the sale, telling police: 'I thought [North Korean beer] could be sold at a high price.'
North Korean-made beer for sale at a souvenir shop at the Reunification Village near Munsan, a few kilometres from the demilitarized zone , dividing the two Koreas. A man in Japan has been charged with importing North Korean beer to Japan and selling it online.However, police from the Toyama prefecture on cyber patrol caught the man whom they said had repeatedly auctioned North Korean beer, as well as other grocery items, through the internet since last year.
Japan's ban on goods from North Korea has been in place since 2009 and includes all exports and imports of products made in, or shipped from, North Korea in response to its repeated nuclear and missile tests. However, deputy director of South Korea's presidential national security office, Kim You-geun, said South Korea has been implementing U.N. sanctions against North Korea over its nuclear weapons program and demanded evidence from Japan for the allegations,It comes amid tensions between Seoul and Tokyo over Japan's past colonial rule of South Korea.
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