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Manner of Speaking
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 Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:04 pm Post subject: North Korea Exporting Illegal Drugs to SK: Column |
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This just blows me away.  Why this isn't front-page news I have no idea:
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Ethics of Sunshine
By Michael Breen
Five years ago, a Chinese ship called the Chuxing visiting the port of Pusan was found to be carrying 91 kilograms of methamphetamine. Customs officials and prosecutors let it go.
Two years later, officials nabbed 45 kgs of the same drugs from the same vessel. Again, they let it go.
In fact, according to customs and prosecution data, the plucky Chuxing has been caught smuggling drugs and counterfeit cigarettes no less than 12 times. And I think we may safely assume that on many occasions its cargo has made it unobserved into the Korean market.
The normal explanation for such a limp-wristed approach to law enforcement would be corruption: the gangsters must have got to the customs people. Or maybe they had a man on the inside. But in this case, it�s something else. The Chuxing is distinct because it plies an unusual route. For many years, it has been making a weekly run between Pusan and the North Korean port of Rajin.
Yes, it�s those North Koreans again. This time, they�re running drugs and counterfeits into South Korea. But the authorities here have been turning a blind eye in the greater interests of the sunshine engagement policy with North Korea.
You�d think that this story, revealed last week by a national assemblyman, would have billowed into a national scandal. But it does not appear to have stirred much interest in the Korean press and society. That, in this foreign observer�s opinion, is because it represents a type of moral lapse that typifies this society: my willingness to subvert the rules for the perceived greater good of whatever it is that I want to do. |
Full article here: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200610/kt2006102619345454220.htm |
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caniff
Joined: 03 Feb 2004
Location: All over the map
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| Posted: Fri Oct 27, 2006 5:28 pm Post subject: Re: North Korea Exporting Illegal Drugs to SK: Column |
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| Manner of Speaking wrote: |
This just blows me away. Why this isn't front-page news I have no idea:
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Ethics of Sunshine
By Michael Breen
Five years ago, a Chinese ship called the Chuxing visiting the port of Pusan was found to be carrying 91 kilograms of methamphetamine. Customs officials and prosecutors let it go.
Two years later, officials nabbed 45 kgs of the same drugs from the same vessel. Again, they let it go.
In fact, according to customs and prosecution data, the plucky Chuxing has been caught smuggling drugs and counterfeit cigarettes no less than 12 times. And I think we may safely assume that on many occasions its cargo has made it unobserved into the Korean market.
The normal explanation for such a limp-wristed approach to law enforcement would be corruption: the gangsters must have got to the customs people. Or maybe they had a man on the inside. But in this case, it�s something else. The Chuxing is distinct because it plies an unusual route. For many years, it has been making a weekly run between Pusan and the North Korean port of Rajin.
Yes, it�s those North Koreans again. This time, they�re running drugs and counterfeits into South Korea. But the authorities here have been turning a blind eye in the greater interests of the sunshine engagement policy with North Korea.
You�d think that this story, revealed last week by a national assemblyman, would have billowed into a national scandal. But it does not appear to have stirred much interest in the Korean press and society. That, in this foreign observer�s opinion, is because it represents a type of moral lapse that typifies this society: my willingness to subvert the rules for the perceived greater good of whatever it is that I want to do. |
Full article here: http://times.hankooki.com/lpage/opinion/200610/kt2006102619345454220.htm |
The article itself offers a pretty good reason for why it's not. |
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