Luxuries Flow Into North Korea Despite Sanctions
General Sources Saturday 7th January, 2012
North Korea -- The North Korean leadership's appetite for imported luxuries, highlighted by three Lincoln limousines at Kim Jong Il's funeral, has spread to growing numbers of the country's elite, despite UN sanctions designed to force Pyongyang to abandon its nuclear weapons program. An examination of UN and Chinese trade data reveals that export...
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