Reply #24: Oh no not porn! [View All]

[fisu]

Sorry for posting this in this thread but since this is my 1st post I cannot start a new thread, but I thought I'd share because this is too funny I think ...

North Korea uses ''mafia-like'' business model -U.S.
CANBERRA, July 10 — North Korea has been caught trying to sell pornography in Finland and rhinoceros horn in Africa to replace the revenue it used to receive from the Soviet Union, the U.S. ambassador to Australia said on Thursday.

Tom Schieffer told the National Press Club in Canberra that North Korea was a rogue state, which had also been involved in shipping missiles and could conceivably sell nuclear weapons.
''When the Soviets were no more, the North Koreans had a revenue shortfall. They seem to have decided that a mafia-like business model is the best way to replace that revenue,'' said Schieffer, a close friend of President George W. Bush.
''They have been caught trying to sell pornography in Finland and prohibited animal products, like rhinoceros horn, in Africa, counterfeiting in Kuwait and trafficking heroin in Australia.
He said concerns surrounding North Korea were not just whether it would acquire and use nuclear, chemical or biological weapons, but also its potential to sell them on the black market.
North Korea is in a stand-off with the United States over the communist state's nuclear weapons programme, but the Asian country has dismissed U.S. criticism of its missile exports as interference in its internal affairs.
It has also rejected allegations of drugs trafficking.


http://famulus.msnbc.com/FamulusIntl/reuters07-10-021620.asp?reg=PACRIM

oh, and I really like selling those rhinoceros horns to Africa .. what next ? Sand to sahara .. ;)