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Room (Bureau) 38 allegedly restored
According ot the Choson Ilbo: North Korea in March restored a special department in the Workers Party codenamed Room 38 which manages leader Kim Jong-il’s coffers and personal slush funds, it emerged...
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Daily NK on Office 39
Pictured above is the location of the First Caribbean International Bank According to the Daily NK: The existence of a secret bank account operated by the No.39 Department of the Chosun Workers’ Party...
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Office 38 reportedly back in business–and other changes
UPDATE 4 (2/20/2011): Kim Tong-un (김동은) named Kim Jong-il’s fund manager. According to Yonhap: A senior official of North Korea’s ruling party has been named to lead a special party bureau, code-named...
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The UNSC sanctions and the North Korean economy
By Benjamin Katzeff Silberstein In the past few days, Daily NK has carried a number of interesting reports on how the latest round of UNSC sanctions have impacted the domestic economy in North Korea....
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