From: Free Malaysia Today
Illicit cigarettes are now second only to the heroin trade in helping fund some of the Taliban militias.
By David M Luna
It’s time to focus the world’s attention on a smuggling enterprise that helps underwrite North Korea’s nukes and Taliban terror.
Where does North Korea, whose gross domestic product is less than that of some US cities, get the money to fund its nuclear efforts? Kim Jong Un and his regime obtain much of their money from a vast series of criminal enterprises that trade in everything, from goods made by forced labour to counterfeit currency to narcotics. And like many insurgent groups and criminal organisations worldwide, Jong Un and his circle also traffic in illegal tobacco.
