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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOh. North Korea is also making meth. Again. Or still.
http://www.dw.com/en/north-korea-ramps-up-manufacture-of-illegal-drugs-amid-sanctions/a-40169753With the latest round of international sanctions making it increasingly difficult for the North Korean regime to obtain the hard currency that it requires to fund its nuclear and missile development programs, reports have emerged from the isolated state that it is once again stepping up the production of illegal narcotics, both for export and for its domestic market.
Quoting its network of covert contributors within North Korea, who communicate via mobile phone, the Seoul-based DailyNK news site has reported that state-run trading companies have begun to produce and sell illicit drugs.
Sources within North Korea say that companies have been "ordered to earn foreign currency" and, as legal means of doing so have been curtailed by the United Nations' export bans, "are turning to drug manufacturing on an industrial scale."
Quoting its network of covert contributors within North Korea, who communicate via mobile phone, the Seoul-based DailyNK news site has reported that state-run trading companies have begun to produce and sell illicit drugs.
Sources within North Korea say that companies have been "ordered to earn foreign currency" and, as legal means of doing so have been curtailed by the United Nations' export bans, "are turning to drug manufacturing on an industrial scale."
It's a cheap drug to make, and other than the fact that it eats your brain, it does up productivity, quell hunger, alleviate existential despair, and relieve pain in the short term. It's been produced for domestic use for the same reason Nazi Germany produced it -- it makes good nationalists better nationalists and it's cheap money.
If the Blitzed theory of meth and Nazis is accurate (and I think it is more accurate than not)... well... it explains a lot.
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Oh. North Korea is also making meth. Again. Or still. (Original Post)
politicat
Sep 2017
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GReedDiamond
(5,316 posts)1. Meth is Death...
...whether it be meth-head German Panzer Divisions in WW2, or the meth that - temporarily - sustained Trump's idol Hitler at the end, in the bunker.
Just know that hillbilly boy Sessions will go after legal med/rec cannabis way more than the gangster-drug cartel meth/big pharm opiate/heroin into fentanyl etc scourge.
A drug that makes Superfund sites, eats brains, and turns humans into fast, delusional zombies with hallucinations and no filters. What's not to love?
dalton99a
(81,577 posts)3. They also make money by "exporting" marijuana - which is legal in NK
It is completely legal to buy and smoke weed there
politicat
(9,808 posts)4. That only bugs me because
1) they get currency and
2) the money supports a psycho and
3) DPRK people need the land for food.
Pot doesn't make people homicidal. Meth does.
Warren DeMontague
(80,708 posts)5. North Korean weed is shitty
even Dennis Rodman won't smoke it.
trusty elf
(7,401 posts)6. There's a meth-head to their madness. n/t