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Politics : American Presidential Politics and foreign affairs
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To: Peter Dierks who wrote (39574)12/15/2009 11:25:15 AM
From: DuckTapeSunroof  Read Replies (1) of 71588
 
Re: "the US is providing food aid to NK."

(Believe your data is several years out-of-date on that one!)

Re: "SK maintains a free trade zone with NK. NK people are employed and the 'wages' are paid to NK who then distribute a small portion to the workers."

Yes, I know. The travails of that factory have been well chronicled recently. (It's been on and off again, operating/not operating recently....)

However the piddling small amount of hard currency that one factory by the DMZ earns (sewing jeans and such stuff) for the North Korean regime is a trifle.

Their only REAL sources for hard currency are the illegal export of arms (which is under a UN ban now and active US interdiction) and the counterfeiting of Dollars... also, naturally, a serious issue.
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