N.Korean Diplomats 'Sell Millions of Dollars Worth of Drugs'

[GreenStormCloud]

http://english.chosun.com/site/data/html_dir/2013/03/20/2013032001084.html

North Korea sent a large amount of illegal drugs to its embassy in an East European country last December and ordered diplomats there to sell it for cash by early April, a diplomatic source here claims.

"South Korean intelligence obtained the information from a North Korean agent who defected recently," the source said. "Similar orders were delivered to other North Korean embassies."

North Korea has ordered each diplomat to raise US$300,000 to prove their loyalty and mark the birthday of nation founder Kim Il-sung on April 15.

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North Korea mass-produces the illegal drugs in factories in Chongjin and Heungnam under tightly regulated conditions, and as a result the quality is top-notch, said one intelligence official here. "North Korean drugs are highly sought-after overseas."

According to the article, all NK embassies are in the drug business. People who don't sell enough drugs are sent back to NK and get thrown into a shark tank. It appears that Kim Jong-Fatty has been watching too many James Bond movies. NK is said to be getting about $200 million a year income from the drug business.

Is Kim and the top leadership using some of their own stuff? That could explain a few things. According to another article I found, most of the drugs are meth. http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/worldviews/wp/2013/03/22/report-north-korea-ordered-its-foreign-diplomats-to-become-drug-dealers/

[formercia]

1. NK has been doing this for a long time

If they can make money from an activity, they will do it.

[GreenStormCloud]

2. I have read that they are into high quality counterfeiting too. N/T

[99Forever]

3. Sounds like someone has a vested interest...

... in making North Korea look just as evil as they possibly can. I wonder why that might be?

[Iggo]

15. They failed at making us afraid of 'em.

Next step, they'rebadactorsmakenomistakeregime change, right?

[onethatcares]

4. I heard they were taking

babies out of incubators and tossing them out of windows to tender them up prior to eating them.

They learned how to do this from Saddam Hussein.

[99Forever]

16. Yep, and they HATE puppies too!

[rug]

5. Chojoongdong.

[GreenStormCloud]

6. Sorry, I don't get it. N/T

[rug]

7. Right wing media.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chojoongdong

[GreenStormCloud]

10. You may notice that I included a link the Washington Post.

Is the Washington Post conservative?

[Rex]

12. Yes they are a huge conglomerate of media and print.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Washington_Post_Company

They would be very interested in creating profit via ratings. So yes, not only are they conservative, but have an agenda.

Kaplan Inc. is one of the worst companies ever formed, they are like vampires.

[JVS]

8. That's Korean for Fauxnews-Drudge-Telegraph

[GreenStormCloud]

9. You may notice that I included a link the Washington Post.

Is the Washington Post conservative?

[JVS]

11. You notice how frequently the washington post questions the veracity of the article they discuss?

[Rex]

13. To think they would not try and get ratings from this

is someone admitting to being naive with the sources they use imo.

[Warren DeMontague]

14. I can't imagine the Drugs in North Korea are very good.

[derby378]

17. Do these sharks have FRICKIN' LASER BEAMS attached to their heads?