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Article: DPRK refutes U.S. charge of drug trafficking
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- March 7, 2006
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DPRK refutes U.S. charge of drug trafficking
PYONGYANG, March 7 (Xinhua) -- The Democratic People's Republic of
Korea(DPRK) on Tuesday strongly denied a U.S. allegation that it had
been drug trafficking, saying such a censure is based on unreal
information.
"The socialist system in the DPRK strictly bans by law not only
the use and dealing in drugs which make people mentally crippled but
their production," said a spokesman of the foreign ministry when
answering questions raised by the official Korean Central News
Agency.
The DPRK has been accused of producing opium and drug trafficking
by the U.S. since the mid-1990s. Washington failed to provide any
specific evidence linked to the ...