Crystal Meth Use 'Rampant' in N.Korea

Chosun Ilbo ^ | 03/05/11

[nascarnation]

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.

[Viking2002]

I'll be damned. I didn't even know the Norks had trailer parks.

"But know this, that in the last days perilous times will come: for men will be lovers of themselves, lovers of money, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, unloving, unforgiving, slanderers, without self-control, brutal, despisers of good, traitors, headstrong, haughty, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having a form of godliness but denying its power. And from such people turn away, for his name is Obama."

[magslinger]

I’d loan him a pistol for the pupose. I don’t own a revolver.

[gaijin]

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.

[M Kehoe]

The Norks do have a "bouncing off the walls" kind of diplomacy.

5.56mm

[Pan_Yan]

I guess considering the surreal cult they live in where life has no value and the future has no hope rampant drug use amongst the ruling elites is not surprising. A skilled intelligence service could use this to great advantage.

[gusty]

and joining biker gangs.

[Hardastarboard]

You’re right.

[aces]

Was I hungry or just jonesing for some meth, monkey does coke until starved with food beside it as 2nd choice..

[GOPsterinMA]

Is Charlie Sheen in North Korea?

[shield]

This what happens in such a repressive country. Look at the old Soviet Union...the people became drunks and still are today...

[DouglasKC]

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.

Those kids could have earned college credits by doing that over here at Northwestern...

[tacticalogic]

I thought these people were nearly starving...

Amphetamines are appetite suppressants. It makes you forget you're hungy.

[yup2394871293]

Illegal drug use can’t be stamped out by police state tactics?! Inconceivable!

[yup2394871293]

It isn't just trailer parks. Far from it.

[West Texas Chuck]

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.

[Repeal The 17th]

I have to confess that I was an FBI agent back then and I really was hiding in your stereo speakers.

[balch3]

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.

[West Texas Chuck]

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.

[TigerLikesRooster]

NK regime itself is a large-scale METH and heroin producer. They converted their pharmaceutical factories into giant METH labs. Once large quantities of METH were exported to outside(predominantly China) to earn hard cash for the regime. Now that China and other countries crack down on METH smuggling, export became difficult, but they still have to generate revenue. They started market METH inside NK. METH trade is conducted by power-that-be of N. Korea. Lately, NK regime started to crack down on METH. They could go after end-users and small-time pushers but I doubt that they can touch big fish, unless the big fish is the main target of Kim duo's purge drive. NK regime is broke(even though Kim Jong-il isn't) and they need cash to sustain the regime. This is not going to disappear soon, and probably become one of the main factors to bring down the regime.

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.