Mob nation

Peter Brookes has an interesting column about North Korea's criminal activities that's worth a read. Here is one excerpt:

"North Korea is the only government in the world today that can be identified as being actively involved in directing crime as a central part of its national economic strategy and foreign policy," says David Asher, until recently a State Department adviser on Asia.

I believe that comment by Asher was made at a presentation I attended which I blogged about here.