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      "title": "North Korean Drug Trafficking: Allegations and Issues for Congress",
      "summary": "At least 34 documented incidents, many involving arrest or detention of North Korean diplomats,\nlink North Korea to drug trafficking. Such events, in the context of ongoing, credible, but unproven,\nallegations of large scale state sponsorship of drug production and trafficking, raise important issues\nfor the Congress, the Administration, and America's allies in combating international drug\ntrafficking. The challenge to policy makers, is how to pursue an effective counter drug policy and\ncomply with U.S. law which may require cutting off aid to North Korea while pursuing other high\npriority U.S. foreign policy objectives including: (1) limiting possession and production of weapons\nof mass destruction; (2) limiting ballistic missile production and export; (3) curbing terrorism,\ncounterfeiting and international crime, and (4) addressing humanitarian needs. \n U.S. aid to North Korea is currently limited to providing food and other humanitarian assistance \ntogether with heavy fuel oil shipments under a 1994 U.S.-North Korea agreement. Reports that North\nKorea may be limiting some of its food crop production in favor of drug crop production are\nparticularly disturbing, though the acreage in question is comparatively small. Another issue of\nrising concern is the degree to which profits from any North Korean drug trafficking, counterfeiting,\nand other crime-for-profit enterprises may be used to directly underwrite or free funds from\nelsewhere to underwrite the costs of maintaining or expanding North Korean nuclear programs. \nThis report will be updated if warranted by new developments.",
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