PYONGYANG: Petrol prices are being pumped higher in Pyongyang in the wake of United Nations sanctions restricting exports of oil products to nuclear-armed North Korea.

Retail prices have gone up around 20 percent in two months, Agence France-Presse saw in the capital—and are now more than double what they were at the beginning of the year.

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