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2021-04-21 Africa North

North Korea Discuss Fostering Healthcare Cooperation with Libya

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Posted by Fred 2021-04-21 00:00|| || Front Page|| [5 views ] Top
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#1

LIBYA offers a backdoor to more certain items the North Korean Elite want or need.

BTW: Hillary/Obama support of Arab Spring removed the only major stumbling block and opened access to Libya for NK.

Posted by NN2N1 2021-04-21 05:40|| 2021-04-21 05:40|| Front Page Top

#2 What can North Korea offer in trade beyond medicinal radioactive isotopes, white juche, pallets of fake US$100 bills, and turnkey nuclear bomb factories, NN2N1?

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-21 06:45|| 2021-04-21 06:45|| Front Page Top

#3 Dietary guidance for really lean years?

Posted by Frank G 2021-04-21 07:37|| 2021-04-21 07:37|| Front Page Top

#4 What can North Korea offer in trade

Organs, children, ...

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-21 08:59|| 2021-04-21 08:59|| Front Page Top

#5 A selection of succulent Bugs?

Posted by Skidmark 2021-04-21 10:00|| 2021-04-21 10:00|| Front Page Top

#6 Organs, children, ...

One wants one’s organs to be healthy and well nourished, as opposed to strung out on drugs. One would expect the same for children, but I suppose that if they’re grateful to be far from North Korea it’ll suffice.

I was just looking up white juche, which I thought meant heroin, but apparently while I wasn’t looking became used by certain white ultranationalists as shorthand for an idealized socialist white ethno-state led by a Kim Jong Il style totalitarian Great Leader. Neo-nazis, for short.

Still, it brought me to this Deutsche Welle article from 2017:

North Korea has a long history of state-sponsored production and smuggling of narcotics, including heroin from poppies grown on farms and synthetic drugs prepared in university laboratories.

According to media reports, starting in the late 1990s methamphetamine was used as a medication in the North, which helped to fuel its spread. The regime began exporting to China, with the Chinese government confirming in 2004 that it had a problem with drugs smuggled over the border from North Korea.

Exports expanded
Exports subsequently expanded to the Philippines, Hong Kong, Thailand, the United States and western Africa.

North Korean diplomats and officials of state-run enterprises have been linked to the smuggling of ivory from Africa, counterfeit cigarettes and medicines, pirated DVDs, used cars and gold in order to earn money, but the most recent clampdown ordered by the United Nations under Security Council Resolution 2371 has made it more difficult to raise funds.

The DailyNK report identifies a number of educational institutions and companies that are allegedly involved in the manufacturing of crystal meth, including the Pyongsong College of Science and the Sunchon Pharmaceutical Factory. And given its relative proximity and a thriving underworld that already has links to North Korea, there are concerns that Japan would be one of the first targets of any export campaign.

'Criminal enterprise'
"North Korea is essentially a criminal enterprise run by one family and they excel at criminal behavior, and that includes the delivery of illegal drugs," said Jake Adelstein, author of "Tokyo Vice: An American Reporter on the Police Beat in Japan" and an expert on Japan's underworld groups.

"I have heard from my police sources that already there has been an increase in the supply of drugs that appeal to a younger generation of consumer, such as ecstasy," he said.

Posted by trailing wife 2021-04-21 10:22|| 2021-04-21 10:22|| Front Page Top

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