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Washington Post: “Huawei secretly helped North Korea build, maintain wireless network"

22 July 2019 17:13 (UTC +04:00)

Huawei Technologies Co Ltd, the Chinese company put on a US black list because of national security concerns, secretly helped North Korea build and maintain its commercial wireless network, the Washington Post reported on Monday, citing sources and internal documents, APA reports.

The Chinese telecommunications giant partnered with a state-owned Chinese firm, Panda International Information Technology Co Ltd., on a number of projects in North Korea over at least eight years, the Post reported.

Such a move would raise questions of whether Huawei, which has used US technology in its components, violated American export controls to furnish North Korea with equipment, according to the Post. Huawei did not immediately respond to a request for comment, but said in a statement it had “no business presence” in North Korea. It was not immediately possible to reach the Panda Group.

The Commerce Department, which also did not immediately respond to a request for comment, has investigated possible links between Huawei and North Korea since 2016 but has not publicly connected the two, the Post said.