Posted on 07/09/2005 6:44:28 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
/begin my translation
Imported Strategic Reserve Materials Paid with Dollars or Heroin
Unit 772 is in charge...enormously powerful
dealings with Chinese Mafia under the cover of legitimate business
When N. Korea imports strategic reserve materials, they make payments with dollars as well as heroin.
According to July issue of monthly magazine 'N. Korea,' N. Korea pays Chinese Mafia(organized crime syndicate) with heroin to import strategic materials such as grains, fuel oil, and medicine. They also pay with heroin when they do business with foreign ships on international waters.
When making deals with Chinese Mafia, N. Koreans invited them under the cover of a cultural or sports group. After arranging their legitimate entry into N. Korea, N. Koreans supplied drugs to Chinese.
Item |
Quota |
Imported from |
Payment |
Final Destination |
food | no | China, Russia |
party fund or barter |
designated by National Defense Commission(secret) |
medicine | Japan, China |
party fund or barter |
No. 53 Warehouse | |
fuel oil | no | China, Russia |
party fund or barter |
designated by National Defense Commission(secret) |
textile/sundries | no | China, Russia |
party fund or barter |
designated by National Defense Commission(secret) |
electronic components | yes | Japan, China |
party fund or barter |
designated by National Defense Commission(secret) |
freight truck | yes | China, Russia |
party fund or barter |
designated by National Defense Commission(secret) |
Whenever Unit 772 makes to its superior organization its request for more heroin to pay for rice and other food items, the unit always gets it.
When making deals with N. Koreans, Chinese Mafia requests the type of drug they need. Ranam Pharmaceutical Factory in N. Korea produce drugs with 4 different labels, including morphine and heroin, each with different price.
Unit 772 is directly under National Defense Commission, whose Chairman is Kim Jong-il. It was created in 2003. Organizations under Unit 772 are given their unique ID number. Each is called 'Management Office No. XX' using its ID number XX. There is such a office for Pyongyang or each province. There are 14 of them in total, and each is headed by its chief(a general.)
In provinces, the unit has almost unlimited power. Local Worker's Party, State Security Dept., and Public Security Station(police) cannot touch the unit. When personnels from Management Office No. 12 under Unit 772 cross the border for their trade-business, nobody stops them. They only need to give notice to the Border Security.
Unit 772 imports various kinds of materials. In addition to food, fuel oil, and medicine, they bring in textiles, general merchandises, electronic components, and freight trucks. They import food and medicine from China and Russia, while electronic and communication equipments from Japan.
Won Jae-yon
2005.07.04(Mon.) 20:18
The following table is from The Daily NK.
Organization name |
Head |
Task |
Area of operation |
management office | chief (two star general or higher) | purchase of strategic reserve materials | N. Hamkyong Province, Japan, China, Russia |
management office | party secretarty(colonel) | party project, personnel management | N. Hamkyong Province |
product procurement | section chief(lieutenant colonel) | managing export material production | the whole country, N. Hamkyong Province |
fishing base | base chief(major) | high quality seafood | seashore of N. Hamkyong Province |
fishing boat(200 hp) | a few dozen ships | has a large refrigerator | seashore of N. Hamkyong Province |
Rajin Trade Base | senior leader(lieutenant colonel) and 3 others | trade(China, Russia, Japan, S. Korea, Mongolia, etc) | Rajin |
XX Trade Base | base chief(major) and one other | trade with Ethnic Korean Autonomous District in China | XX |
Shinjin Trade Base | - | trade with Japanese on international waters | Chong-jin |
Musan Trade Base | scheduled to be opened |
/end my translation
Ping!
3 years later, I was paroled.
for a few decades there have been 3 currancies US dollars, Drugs and Weapons. All interchangable at the high levels.
All kidding aside, I heard the DPRKs were pirating drugs like Oxycontin and synthesizing morphine and the like, and selling them for currency. I read too, that in addition to those drugs they were refining cocaine at one time while counterfeiting US currency. Follow the money, its amazing that the DPRK-Drug Dealing-Counterfeiting-terrorism angle hasnt been explored more in depth..
They are also big on METH. They maintain extensive business contacts with Japanese crime syndicates. Kim Jong-il's first son, Kim Jong-nam, was in charge of drug operations in Japan. Maybe he still is.
This is an article to not miss.
Ping
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