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The Role of Restaurants in North Korea
The restaurant chains are well known by intelligence agencies that their whole point of them is to generate foreign currency and ship it back to North Korea. It's just kind of a service position from the regime, which I would imagine keeps pretty tight tabs on these women whose families are still living back in North Korea. They also do things like sell weapons, weapon technology. Obviously the Syrian nuclear program was thought to have been partially built with designs and technology from North Korea. There's some wildlife trafficking because again, if you're a diplomat, you have diplomatic pouches. Fake companies selling beef, bootleg liquor,. smuggling cigarettes, real or otherwise, in diplomatic pouched and then reselling them