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US Aims to Close North Korea's Shady 'Office 39'
Aug 31st 2010 – 4:18PM
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(Aug. 31) -- The Obama administration is tightening the financial squeeze on North Korea, intensifying sanctions against money laundering, drug trafficking and weapons proliferation and aiming to drain the slush fund used to procure luxury items for the impoverished country's leaders. President Barack Obama issued an...
Background on office 39
Room 39 (also referred to as Bureau 39, Division 39, or Office 39) is a secretive Democratic People's Republic of Korea government organization that seeks ways to maintain the foreign currency slush fund of North Korea's leader Kim Jong-un.
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