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Author: Kan, Paul Rexton

Title: Criminal Sovereighty: Understanding North Korea's Illicit International Activities

Summary: North Korea's criminal conduct -- smuggling, trafficking, and counterfeiting -- is well known, but the organization directing it is understudied or overlooked. This report focuses of North Korea's Office #39 as the state apparatus that directs illicit activities to include the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs, the counterfeiting of U.S. currency, and the manufacture and distribution of counterfeit cigarettes.

Details: Carlisle, PA: Strategic Studies Institute, U.S. Army War College, 2010. 36p.

Source: Internet Resource

Year: 2010

Country: Korea, North

URL:

Shelf Number: 118408

Keywords:
Counterfeit Currency
Drug Trafficking (North Korea)
Illegal Cigarettes
Smuggling (North Korea)

Author: Sovacool, Benjamin K.

Title: North Korea and Illegal Narcotics: Smoke but No Fire?

Summary: This article examines the extent to which the North Korean regime has dabbled in the state-sponsored production and distribution of illegal narcotics. Many U.S. policymakers, including the president and secretary of state, and many within the U.S. media tacitly accept the idea that the North Korean state is an increasingly active drug trafficker and producer of heroin and methamphetamine. A review of the available evidence, however, shows these claims to be unsupported. The fact that the existing data can hold North Korea responsible for only less than one hundredth of 1% of global narcotics production and the fact that satellite imagery has been unable to confirm any North Korean drug production strongly suggest that the regime receives at most a tepid percentage of its annual revenues from narcotics trafficking.

Details: Seattle, WA: National Bureau of Asian Research, 2009. 23p.

Source: Research Note, Asia Policy Number 7: Internet Resource: Accessed June 14, 2012 at http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asia_policy/v007/7.sovacool.pdf

Year: 2009

Country: Korea, North

URL: http://muse.jhu.edu/journals/asia_policy/v007/7.sovacool.pdf

Shelf Number: 125351

Keywords:
Drug Trafficking (North Korea)
Narcotics (North Korea)