Mansudae Overseas Projects
Mansudae Overseas Projects is a construction company based in Jongphyong-dong, Phyongchon District, Pyongyang, North Korea.
Mansudae Overseas Project (MOP) is an entity with global operations and was sanctioned by the U.S. Treasury in 2016 under its full name – Mansudae Overseas Project Group of Companies for its use of workers overseas for the purpose of generating hard currency for the government of North Korea or the Workers Party of Korea. It is the international commercial division of the Mansudae Art Studio.
As of 2015, Mansudae projects have been built in 17 countries: Angola, Algeria, Benin, Botswana, Cambodia, Chad, Democratic Republic of Congo, Egypt, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Germany, Malaysia, Mali, Mozambique, Namibia, Senegal, Togo and Zimbabwe. The company uses North Korean artists, engineers, and construction workers rather than those of the local artists and workers. Sculptures, monuments, and buildings are in the style of North Korean socialist realism.
Construction company Mansudae Overseas Projects Group, which is subject to sanctions by both the US and UN, has erected dozens of monuments and buildings across Africa, including Namibia’s state house and official presidential residence in Windhoek. US officials believe Mansudae continues to employ North Korean labourers throughout the continent.
Mansudae Overseas Projects constructed the President Dr. Agostinho Neto Cultural Center in Luanda, Angola.
Sources:
- https://www.nknews.org/2017/05/north-korean-company-under-investigation-by-senegal-dakar/
- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mansudae_Overseas_Projects
- https://www.treasury.gov/press-center/press-releases/Pages/sm0148.aspx
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