A Chinese national living in the U.S. was sentenced to eight years in prison for conspiring to illegally smuggle guns , ammunition and sensitive U.S. technology to North Korea , the Department of Justice said Tuesday.

Shenghua Wen, 42, pleaded guilty in June to one count each of conspiring to violate the International Emergency Economic Powers Act and acting as an illegal agent of a foreign government.

Wen had admitted to concealing the contraband inside shipping containers that he falsely claimed were filled with consumer goods bound for China.

Wen said North Korean officials wired him about $2 million to buy guns and other products, according to a criminal complaint in Los Angeles federal court.

U.S. District Judge Stephen Wilson sentenced Wen in that court on Monday.

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