Posts Tagged ‘bingdu’
“Anti-Drug Campaigns Expanding”: Rodong Sinmun in Translation
Just as we’re having a discussion here at SinoNK.com and at Aujourd’hui en Chine about the growing methamphetamine [冰毒/빙두] problem in North Korea, right on cue the Rodong Sinmun issues the following commentary on “anti-drug campaigns” in the developing world. While the North continues to dismiss claims about drug manufacturing and abuse in the DPRK, the author […]
Spreading Meth across the Chinese-North Korean Border
People and goods can and will always penetrate borders, even the ostensibly tightly-sealed DPRK boundary. In this essay, Jende Huang, Sino-NK’s Border Security Analyst, offers his take on the illicit drug trade between North Korea and China.While the laobaixing — represented, at least, by the taxi drivers in Tumen — know the problem exists, so […]
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