Just another reason why I do not believe anything about North Korea coming from the United Nations:

A UN official says the once prominent flow of illegal drugs out of North Korea has been, for the most part, curtailed since 2002.

Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime, recently told an interview with Japan’s Kyodo News Agency that there is no evidence suggesting the North has been involved in any illegal drug deals over the last few years.

North Korea had been suspected of state-sponsored drug smuggling across international borders during the 1980s and 90s.

Costa’s statement is the first time a senior UN official has confirmed the North’s suspension of drug smuggling.  [KBS Global]

First of all after the cover up of the UNDP scandal, the United Nations has absolutely zero creditability when it comes to North Korea and this report is another example why.

This claim from the UN is also interesting considering that North Korean defector groups recently released video taken last year of North Korean poppy fields.  Then last year you had the Japanese courts sentenced two men to prison sentences for smuggling meth into Japan from North Korea.  Let us not forget the ship captured by Australian authorities in 2003 filled with drugs from North Korea.  There are even reports that so much drugs are produced in North Korea that a domestic drug addiction problem is now ravaging the country.

I could go on and on, but of course the useful idiots at the UN could care less, which is evident by the fact they have restarted Kim Jong-il’s personal ATM in the country.