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superbloke
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 Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:12 pm Post subject: Claim: North Korea makes heroin |
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http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,24775437-12377,00.html
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North Korean defectors have 'poppy farm' video
SOUTH Korean activists and North Korean defectors have shown what they say is the first video clip of a huge military-controlled poppy farm in the communist North.
The clip released yesterday provef the North was involved in state-sponsored narcotics production, said the Citizens Coalition for Human Rights of Abductees and North Korean Refugees.
The 20-minute footage shows a hillside covered with poppies in a military-controlled district in Taehung County, 130km northeast of Pyongyang.
It also shows a purported drug factory in the northeastern city of Chongjin where the North has allegedly produced heroin.
The group said it received the clip from a spy in the North's military in November last year. Group leader Do Hee-said the shaky video was filmed a month before that.
"You can guess its scale as the clip shows another poppy farm spread over the mountain," he said, charging that the North's military has been involved in what defectors call "the white bellflower project" to produce heroin.
The South's unification ministry said it could not confirm the claim.
Defectors say that the North has used inmates at a camp for political prisoners to grow poppies and that drugs have been sold by state agencies and embassies abroad.
Kim Yong-Hwa, a former North Korean government official who arrived in Seoul in 1990, said the North's biggest state poppy farm was located in Tanchon City in South Hamkyong province on the east coast.
"North Korea has produced most of its poppy sap at this farm" since the 1960s, he told Yonhap news agency today.
Washington has in the past accused Pyongyang of smuggling drugs to help finance weapons and other programs.
In 2003 Australia seized a North Korean freighter that was delivering a large shipment of pure heroin.
In its 2006 report the US State Department reaffirmed its view that it was "likely, but not certain" that the North's Government sponsored criminal activities, including narcotics production and trafficking.
But US Assistant Secretary of State Anne Patterson said in March 2007 that Washington had not seen evidence of North Korean Government involvement in drug trafficking "for some years". |
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prideofidaho
Joined: 19 Mar 2008
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:18 pm Post subject: |
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yeah, they mention that in this documentary : http://best.online.docus.googlepages.com/
(Children of the Secret State)
Seems like farmers are forced to grow heroin giving the state and party elites loads of money. |
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Troll_Bait
Joined: 04 Jan 2006
Location: [T]eaching experience doesn't matter much. -Lee Young-chan (pictured)
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| Posted: Mon Dec 08, 2008 11:27 pm Post subject: |
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North Korea has been producing a lot of drugs for a long time, such as the methamphetamine in South Korea that comes here via the Yakuza.
P.S. The local media refers to methamphetamine as "philipon." Why? Who knows? |
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hogwonguy1979
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| Posted: Tue Dec 09, 2008 12:28 am Post subject: |
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north korea has had a notorious rep for its involvement in the int drug trade and counterfeit currency markets, in the drug trade they are right up with the usual suspects.
huge in the opium and yaba markets thats for sure |
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Troll_Bait
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