North Korean extradited from Malaysia appears in US court

A North Korean businessman accused by the United States of laundering money to circumvent US and UN sanctions intended to curb his country’s nuclear weapons programme appeared in a US court on Monday after extradition from Malaysia.

The US Justice Department said Mun Chol Myong, who it said was affiliated with North Korea’s primary intelligence organisation, the Reconnaissance General Bureau, was the first North Korean ever extradited to the United States.