Posted on 03/04/2011 6:07:09 PM PST by TigerLikesRooster
Crystal Meth Use 'Rampant' in N.Korea
North Korea's collapse will be brought about not by external pressure or the economic malaise but by widespread crystal methamphetamine abuse, say North Korean defectors who have recently arrived in the South.
How serious the problem is can be gleaned from a special instruction issued by North Korean leader Kim Jong-il's son and heir Jong-un, who earlier this year ordered the security forces to round up drug users, "regardless of rank" -- implying that addiction is widespread in all strata of society.
Defectors say that youngsters at an elite school in Chongjin, North Hamgyong Province attended by the children of senior officials were caught by security officers having sex acts while watching a porn video under the influence of the drug. Widespread drug use has also been reported at major universities such as Pyongyang University of Foreign Studies and Kim Chaek University of Technology.
North Korean sources say many security officers are themselves in thrall to the highly addictive drug.
Rumors say that at an officers' school under the North Korean Army near the border area, senior officers are enticing female soldiers under their command to use the drug and siphoning off the school's food to raise money for drugs.
Many officials of the State Security Department, the key North Korean agency charged with protecting the regime, are drug abusers themselves, sources claim, and reportedly work themselves up into frenzies of violence under the influence.
Instead of disposing of drugs they confiscate, officials either use them themselves or make money selling them on.
Some North Koreans allegedly use drugs as currency, with high school students exchanging them as birthday gifts and people even giving them as wedding presents.
The drugs in circulation are made in the North. The North reportedly began producing them in the early 1980s to earn the hard currency for the regime.
But crackdowns abroad have made export more difficult, especially in China, so the drugs are now sold in the North itself.
Once the taboo was broken, drugs became rampant. Even scientists at academies of sciences have begun secretly making drugs in their laboratories to earn money on the side as the economy goes from bad to worse.
A former senior North Korean official who recently defected to South Korea said the number of drug addicts has soared since a botched currency reform in late 2009.
A rumor among senior officials in Pyongyang in recent days is that Kim Jong-il's younger sister Kyong-hui is among the addicts, and Kim father and son too use the drug
Meth is cheaply and easily made from common chemicals that are not foodstuffs.
So it’s easy to see why a country like NK might use it for their substance abuse of choice.
I’d loan him a pistol for the pupose. I don’t own a revolver.
NK gets foreign currency by exporting weapons and meth —of course they counterfeit foreign currencies, primarily the US $100, and the Japanese 10,000 yen note.
This is a guess, but I’d say that aside from Mexico, NK has the biggest meth operations in the world.
5.56mm
and joining biker gangs.
You’re right.
Was I hungry or just jonesing for some meth, monkey does coke until starved with food beside it as 2nd choice..
Is Charlie Sheen in North Korea?
This what happens in such a repressive country. Look at the old Soviet Union...the people became drunks and still are today...
Those kids could have earned college credits by doing that over here at Northwestern...
Amphetamines are appetite suppressants. It makes you forget you're hungy.
Illegal drug use can’t be stamped out by police state tactics?! Inconceivable!
That makes me wonder how easy ephedrine is to get there. Once you got that it is an easy process to make meth. So I’ve read, no personal experience.
I say if it is being transported into N. Korea then somebody in the govt. is in on the deal. If it is being cooked up in country there are bound to be a few places around where something blowed up real good.
That is some bad caca, I’ve seen the effects in person back in my druggie days. I’ve known people who would stay up for two weeks at a time, they might take a meal or two in there but not enough to sustain a human body for very long. One of ‘em was sure there were FBI agents hiding in my stereo speakers. That is some bad caca. And the reason I don’t have my phone number listed to this day, those people are dangerous. It is doubtful any of them are still alive, but you never know.
I have to confess that I was an FBI agent back then and I really was hiding in your stereo speakers.
the most highly controlled society in the world can’t control its populations’s drug use. This is a lesson for all the drug warriors.
That was you? I just thought that guy was crazy.
Yes kids, I have a checkered past, but that was a long time ago. I ain’t been around that crowd in a few decades.
NK regime actively raised this monster by making MEH production as a major export industry of N. Korea. Now it is having a blow-back.
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