Maebong Company-Ringleaders of Foreign Currency
Daily NK Han Young Jin 3/20/2007 (UPDATE: On Oct. 23, [2008] the State Department blacklisted two North Korean companies, Korea Mining Development Corp. and Korea Taesong Trading Co., for violating...
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Daily NK Kim Chan Ku Institute for Far Eastern Studies 9/19/2007 (UPDATE: On Oct. 23, [2008] the State Department blacklisted two North Korean companies, Korea Mining Development Corp. and Korea...
View ArticleUS freezes assets in DPRK proliferation case
UPDATE 4: The following statement appeared on the Treasury Department web page: In joint actions, the U.S. Departments of Treasury and State today announced the designations of five North Korean...
View ArticleUS sanctions two more DPRK organizations
UPDATE 2: Here is the actual Treasury Department Press Release (11/18/2010): Treasury Designates Key Nodes of the Illicit Financing Network of North Korea’s Office 39 11/18/2010 WASHINGTON – The U.S....
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UPDATE 1 (2012-2-21): According to the Korea Times, this store is now providing people with a legal window to exchange local for hard currency: North Korea is apparently allowing foreign currency to be...
View ArticleRi Jong Ho, high-level defector and former official in Office 39, says North...
Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein In a fascinating interview by Kyodo News’s Tomotaro Inoue, Ri Jong Ho, a former high-level official in Office 39 of the Korean Worker’s Party, makes several fascinating...
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