North Korea: Meth Lab

Announcements like this might be portents of a new push to expand enforcement of the Proliferation Security Initiative to suspected dope smuggling:

Assistant Secretary of State Robert Charles said in a briefing North Korean exports totaled between US$600 million and US$650 million a year but its imports exceeded US$1 billion. He said it was believed that North Korea paid for the difference through illegal activities like gold smuggling, counterfeiting and drug trafficking.