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Taiwan intercepts North Korean drugs ship
Taiwanese police announced Wednesday they had impounded a fishing boat the 'Sheman 18' for carrying 79kg of heroin in 198 packs and firearms, which the crew had picked up from a North Korean navy vessel in North Korean waters. The police said the Sheman 18 belonged to a drug syndicate and that officials from the North were highly likely involved as a North Korean warship had escorted it. The nine-man crew has been placed under arrest. According to defectors, North Korea has been growing poppies to make opium in the northeast of the country since 1997, in a bid to earn foreign currency by exporting drugs. They say Thai chemists worked at a factory there to produce the narcotics, and the bags used the Thai language to disguise its source. The People's Workers Party and the military apparently run the operation. That explains a lot, doesn't it? Those suckers are sampling their own recreational medication... Posted by: Fred Pruitt 2002-07-05 |
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