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Article: The wiseguy regime.(North Korea allegedly smuggles, counterfiets, and traffics in narcotics to fund nuclear programs)
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- U.S. News & World Report
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- February 15, 1999
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North Korea has embarked on a global crime spree; %c Seoul
Something about the two North Korean diplomats passing through Egypt didn't seem quite right. The pair, based in Syria, had arrived only a day earlier from Ethiopia and already were high-tailing it out of Cairo. Suspicious, an Egyptian customs official insisted on checking their six suitcases. He found quite a stash: 506,000 tablets of Rohypnol, a sedative known as the "date-rape drug."
That episode last July--the largest seizure of Rohypnol on record--is just one in a long string of drug incidents, counterfeiting cases, and other alleged crimes involving North Korean officials. Isolated, beset ...