Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press
Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press
North Korea
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Meet the North Korean firm which reinvents itself to beat sanctions

Shinhung Trading Company has sold everything from iron ore to cancer ‘cures’, avoiding sanctions and creating revenue as the hermit state develops nuclear weapons

Topic |   North Korea
Agence France-Presse
Agence France-Presse

Updated: 2:55pm, 20 Jul, 2018

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Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press
Trucks laden with goods crossing a bridge between China and North Korea in Dandong in September. Increasingly strict sanctions have been introduced by the UN against Pyongyang. Photo: Associated Press
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