North Korea’s newest luxury mall is now home to an IKEA store, a video uploaded to China social media suggests, giving wealthy residents of Pyongyang the opportunity to purchase the Swedish giant’s flat-pack furniture for their own homes.

But the store appears to be using the IKEA brand name without permission, as the company told NK News that it has no official presence in the DPRK.

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