Tag: Uzbekistan

Picture of the Day: 1st Lady in Uzbekistan

| June 18, 2024
First lady meets Uzbek children
First lady meets Uzbek children
First lady Kim Keon Hee (R, front row) is greeted by Uzbek children at a cultural event in Tashkent on June 15, 2024, on the occasion of South Korean President Yoon Suk Yeol’s state visit to the Central Asian nation. (Pool photo) (Yonhap)

Picture of the Day: President Moon Meets with Uzbekistan Leader

| April 23, 2019
Moon with Uzbek president
Moon with Uzbek presidentSouth Korean President Moon Jae-in (R) shakes hands with Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev in Tashkent on April 20, 2019. Moon is in Uzbekistan on a four-day state visit. (Yonhap)

Uzbekistan Shuts Down North Korean Embassy

| August 25, 2016

Another one bites the dust:

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North Korea shut down its embassy in Uzbekistan early this month.

Embassy staff returned to North Korea late last month, while the building in the Uzbek capital of Tashkent was sold along with the official cars and other assets.

The Uzbek government demanded the closure as part of international sanctions against North Korea in response to the North’s latest nuclear test in January.

A diplomatic source in Uzbekistan said, “Diplomatic relations have not been severed, but North Korean diplomats were virtually evicted by the Uzbek government rather than voluntarily closing down the mission due to financial problems.”

The Tashkent embassy was the North’s sole remaining diplomatic mission in Central Asia after the embassy in Kazakhstan was shut down in 1998.   [Chosun Ilbo]

You can read more at the link, but considering how these North Korean embassies are primarily used for illicit activity to bring in foreign currency to the Kim regime who would want one of these in their backyard?