U.S. policy options toward stopping North Korea's illicit activities
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Authors
Trimble, Meridee Jean
Subjects
North Korea
illicit activities
counterfeit
drugs
human trafficking
illicit activities
counterfeit
drugs
human trafficking
Advisors
Olsen, Edward A.
Date of Issue
2007-12
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Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
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Abstract
North Korea began its involvement in illicit activities in the 1970s, but it took the United States until the new millennium to develop a series of major law enforcement approaches to counter these activities. North Korea's illicit activities are purportedly the funding input for the development of its nuclear weapons program, which constitutes the output. The main illicit activities to be discussed include drug production and trafficking, the counterfeiting of U.S. currency, cigarettes and pharmaceuticals, missile sales and human trafficking. The United States has aggressively addressed the nuclear threat that North Korea poses, but has been slow to address the inputs that fund the outputs. This thesis seeks to answer the question of why it took the United States over three decades to address the illicit activities of North Korea that purportedly fund its nuclear program.
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Thesis
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Naval Postgraduate School (U.S.)
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x, 79 p. ;
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