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Nearly 40 percent of N.K. exports linked to illicit activities
As much as 40 percent of North Korea's exports and total cash earnings derive from criminal activities such as counterfeiting, drug trafficking and weapons smuggling, a former State Department official estimated in his study. David Asher, adjunct scholar at the Institute for Defense Analyses, urged container security measures to end such illicit activities by North Korea and that they begin in South Korea and China....

"What's apparently filling the gap and accounting for the apparent improvements to the standard of living for the elite? The short answer as I see it: crime," he said. "To get into the international maritime transport system, they (North Korea's containers) have to go through friendly ports, typically in China, the ROK, and Japan."
By Lee Dong-min, Yonhap News (November 20, 2005)

[itaewonguy]

north koreans are a high profile heroin manufactures. they supply Japan and other nations.. big business there for them as well as weapons!

[Hollywoodaction]

They manufacture quite a bit of metamphetamines.

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