North Korean Olympic athletes denied gifts from Samsung that every other team got

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The North Korean Olympic team has five medals at the Paris Olympics so far, but it will go home empty-handed when it comes to new smartphones. 

The International Olympic Committee announced on Thursday that North Korea's athletes will be the only athletes in Paris not to receive complimentary Samsung smartphones that went to all the other teams.

Samsung, a South Korea-based sponsor of the Olympics, announced it would be providing 10,500 complimentary new phones to this year's Olympians. The company offered the Galaxy Z Flip6, which includes a foldable screen, which is not featured in any available iPhone products. 

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North Korean Olympic athletes won't be getting complimentary smartphones from Samsung. (CFOTO/Future Publishing via Getty Images/File)

But the South Korean Foreign Ministry said Thursday that providing Samsung smartphones to North Korean Olympians could defy U.N. sanctions related to Pyongyang's weapons program.

"The U.N. Security Council, in accordance with paragraph 7 of Resolution 2397 (2017), prohibits the direct or indirect supply, sale and transfer of all industrial machinery to North Korea, and smartphones are prohibited items subject to the resolution," the South Korean Foreign Ministry said in a statement. "Our government is continuing to make diplomatic efforts in cooperation with the international community to ensure the thorough implementation of U.N. Security Council resolutions."

North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions for its ballistic missile and nuclear programs since 2006, and the sanctions have become more restrict over the years.

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