Kim Jong- Il Peddling Fake Viagra

NewsMax ^ | Januaray 16, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

[Kaslin]

Add knockoff Viagra to the list of items exported by rogue state North Korea.

Author Peter Brookes, writing in the New York Post, says that North Korea "has become a gangster nation, pocketing $700 million to $1 billion a year from counterfeiting U.S. greenbacks, trafficking illicit narcotics, smuggling contraband smokes and even peddling knockoff Viagra.”

North Korea is the world’s third largest heroin producer behind Afghanistan and Burma, and 40 percent of the methamphetamine seized in Japan has been traced to Kim Jong-Il’s regime.

Over the past 16 years, authorities have seized $45 million in counterfeit U.S. $100 bills, of such high quality that they are called "supernotes.”

Last summer, a U.S.-Canadian undercover operation led to the indictment of 87 American and foreign smugglers with ties to Pyongyang’s illegal exports, reports Brookes, author of "A Devil’s Triangle: Terrorism, WMD and Rogue States.”

Authorities seized $4 million in supernotes; one billion cigarettes worth $42 million; ecstasy, methamphetamine and Viagra worth hundreds of thousands of dollars, and $700,000 in mock U.S. postage stamps.

North Korea also smuggles diamonds, gold and weapons. The "payola,” according to Brookes, "keeps Kim Jong-Il flush in cognac and caviar, and buys loyalty from the military, security services and other elite.”

It also helps fund North Korea’s nuclear/ballistic missile programs.

[Kaslin]

Kim Jong- Il....Dictator

Kim Jong- Il....Hero to the left

[mosquewatch.com]

I hear profits are on the rise as well... ;)

[FormerACLUmember]

Socialism is indistinguishible from organized crime.

[atomicpossum]

All that viagra, and yet still so ronery.

[CounterCounterCulture]

You're bweakin' my bawls, Hans. Bweakin' my bawls.

[moog]

Man, that last kimchi had some kick.

[BeHoldAPaleHorse]

I'm so ronery...

[atomicpossum]

If Kim Jong Il took some viagra he wouldn't be able to bend over.

[EveningStar]

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[manwiththehands]

It was ineviwab ... invitawa ... inevitablable ..

[alloysteel]

Organized crime has some degree of honor, and there is none of this nonsense about pretending to distribute the proceeds evenly among all the participants.

[lormand]

What do North Koreans to for a condom?

Put a piece of gum on it!

[goresalooza]

I got news for Newsmax....Korea (North and South) has been the "king of knockoffs" for decades. When I was there in SE Asia, late 80s early 90s, the big thing was knock-off Reeboks and Rolexes. It's not just Korea, but Thailand, Okinawa, the Philippines, HongKong, Singapore. Mexico does it too. It's not a new thing.

Knockoff Viagra...what's new?

[moog]

Porky, you got to work on that.

[LoudRepublicangirl]

I've got news for Kim Jong Il-it won't make it bigger....

[dynachrome]

Just when ya think he can't sink lower.....

[Dashing Dasher]

I believe we have some Kim Jong Il for Humble to play with!

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[ChadGore]

so ronry bump

[humblegunner]

He ronery and sadry arone, Viagla onry make it worse.

Now mighty Kim ronery and sadry blaking he own bawrs.

[Fresh Wind]

He's truly a hardened criminal.