Following earlier sanctions -breaking trades from the city-state, including sending wine, liquor, and perfume to Pyongyang, a Singaporean man was sentenced to prison for selling roughly $1 million worth of strawberry milk and coffee to North Korea. Due to its nuclear and ballistic missile tests, North Korea has been subjected to a flurry of sanctions, including those from the United Nations. In 2017, Singapore cut off its trade relations with North Korea. After entering a guilty plea, Phua Sze Hee, 59, a former manager at the beverage company Pokka International, was given a five-week jail term on Monday. He sold coffee drinks and strawberry-flavoured milk to multiple Singaporean businesses between 2017 and 2018, knowing they would be shipped to North Korea and sold there. Despite not receiving any compensation from the sales, he was nevertheless able to reach his monthly sales goals, according to court records. In 2014, a client introduced Phua to "one Mr Kim, who was s...
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