Got Meth?

Recently,  Robert Koehler  blogged about the North Korean drug ship that was repeatedly caught in Busan, only to be left to go and make the same haul again.  It’s only the latest example of the South Korean government putting the interests of Bureau 39 ahead of the interests of ordinary Korean citizens in either the North or the South.  Now, however, media exposure has embarrassed Roh’s government into the most limp-wristed  action  they could get away with — actually inspecting the ship:

Customs authorities said Saturday they have strengthened the inspection of a Chinese cargo ship plying the route between Busan and Najin on North Korea’s northeast coast following the North’s nuclear test last month.

The 2,283-ton Chusing is the only cargo ship operating once a week between the two Koreas, which are still technically at war because the 1950-53 Korean War ended in an armistice, not a peace treaty.

I used to prosecute meth cases, and I’m convinced it’s as bad as crack.  You see hollowed-out meth users all over the grungier parts of cities in the West.  One of its stranger effects, aside from paranoia and pyschosis, is a phenomenon   known as  “meth mouth.”