North Korean women who turned to prostitution to survive believe that opium

… protects them from STDs, and then end up addicted, according to this article in New Focus. Do you suppose the regime would acknowledge either prostitution or drug abuse enough to allow a public health education program to counteract this dangerous myth? On the other hand, if an NGO were to purchase some ad time on Radio Free North Korea or Open Radio for North Korea, it could deliver that message directly to an audience that desperately needs to hear it.