N Korea envoys 'smuggled drugs'
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Turkey deports two North Korean diplomats accused of smuggling amphetamine pills into the country.
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Diplomats from eight countries left the North Korean capital for the remote site of a mysterious explosion to check Pyongyang's claim that it was not a nuclear blast.
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North Korea on Monday reportedly told a visiting British diplomat in Pyongyang that a billowing cloud of smoke caused by an explosion last week was the planned demolition of a mountain for a hydroelectric project, according to news reports.
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Text of report in English by Japanese news agency Kyodo  Tokyo, March 13 Kyodo - The Tokyo District Court sentenced a pleasure boat operator to 13 years in prison Tuesday for smuggling a large amount of amphetamine stimulant drugs from North Korea in 2002 in conspiracy with accomplices.
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BEIJING - The British and German ambassadors to North Korea on Thursday travelled with other foreign diplomats from Pyongyang to the site of a huge explosion close to North Korea&#39;s border with China, British officials said.
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A U.N. report suggested that some officials in the country have been so corrupted that the opium trade would not be stamped out for a generation
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KABUL, Afghanistan The Afghan government is blaming drug smugglers for yesterday&#39;s attack on the leading vice presidential candidate .
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Astana - New York, September 28 KAZINFORM -- A senior North Korean official claimed at the United Nations Monday that his country has already produced atomic weapons with reprocessed nuclear fuel rods.
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A massive heroin cache seized in July southeastern Myanmar was meant to be shipped to the United States, a counter-narcotics official said Tuesday.
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The Korean government yesterday confirmed that about 100 metric tons of sodium cyanide, a toxic chemical compound that can be used to produce nerve gas, was illegally sent to North Korea via China last year.
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WASHINGTON - The government said Tuesday that intercepted drugs purportedly sent from Canada were made and shipped elsewhere, had been subject to Canadian recall and had cheaper generic counterparts in the United States.
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Japan has created "a horrific  atmosphere of terror" for its Korean residents since it began  cracking down on their activities, North Korea's U.N. envoy  said on Wednesday.
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Alexander Torshin, the head of a parliamentary commission investigating last month&#39;s Beslan school hostage crisis, on Tuesday questioned officials&#39; contentions that the raiders were using narcotics, saying he believes they were deranged by an unknown drug
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The United States suspects that  about $3 million in U.N. Development Program funds may have  been diverted by North Korea to buy property in Britain, Canada  and France, allegations denied by the agency.
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North Korea has reprocessed 8,000 spent fuel rods into weapons-grade plutonium and appears to have exported nuclear material to Libya, U.S. officials informed Asian allies this week.
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Nuclear-armed North Korea used UN-linked bank accounts to secretly transfer funds in connection with alleged weapons sales, a US Senate probe showed Thursday.
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UNITED NATIONS, June 1 -- U.N. agencies paid North Korean staff members and suppliers in hard currency without approval and hired only government-approved staff in violation of U.N. procedures,  auditors said Friday.