Foreign Relations: Summary of Drug Trafficking and North Korea Note: this section also addresses the U.S. foreign policy position on the topic. At least 50 documented incidents in more than 20 countries around the world, many involving arrest or detention of North Korean diplomats, link […]
North Korea’s Illicit Activities Drugs, Counterfeiting, and Arms Trade Much of what we know about North Korean drug trafficking comes from drug seizures and apprehensions abroad. Foreign Relations and North Korea: Government-Sponsored Drug Trafficking Note: this section also addresses the […]
Foreign Relations: North Korea Allegations of Drug Trafficking Note: this section also addresses the U.S. foreign policy position on the topic. President George W. Bush, in his Fiscal Year 2007 determination of major illicit drug trafficking and transit countries, raised the issue of […]
Foreign Relations: Alleged Drug Trafficking of North Korea Government Note: this section also addresses the U.S. foreign policy position on the topic. The March 2003 INCSR includes little information on North Korea in its money laundering section, but notes reports that Pyongyong has used […]
History Early History By both Korean and Chinese tradition Ki-tze—a councillor of the last sovereign of the 3rd Chinese dynasty, a sage, and the reputed author of parts of the famous Chinese classic, the Shu-King—is represented as entering Korea in 1122 b.c. with several thousand Chinese […]
Government History From 1895, when China renounced her claims to suzerainty, to 1910 the king (since 1897 emperor) was in theory an independent sovereign, Japan in 1904 guaranteeing the welfare and dignity of the imperial house. Under a treaty signed at Seoul on the 17th of November 1905, […]
Drug Trafficking in North Korea The East of Asia is a crucial geographic zone for drug production and trafficking. The countries of the region have suffered various consequences of drug trafficking. Foreign Relations: Issues for Decision-makers in relation to Drug Trafficking in North Korea […]
Law History A criminal code, scarcely equalled for barbarity, though twice mitigated by royal edict since 1785, remained in force in its main provisions till 1895. Subsequently, a mixed commission of revision carried out some good work. Elaborate legal machinery was devised, though its […]
History Korea for administrative purposes is divided into provinces and prefectures or magistracies. Japanese reforms in this department have been complete. Each provincial government has a Japanese secretary, police inspector and clerks. The secretary may represent the governor in his […]
Commerce History A commercial treaty was concluded with Japan in 1876, and treaties with the European countries and the United States of America were concluded subsequently. An imperial edict of the 20th of May 1904 annulled all Korean treaties with Russia. After the opening of certain […]