Meanwhile:
western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.
In recent years, a booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea’s isolated economy, softening the impact of international sanctions and providing Pyongyang with vital revenue to pursue its nuclear ambitions
Sanctions, like all other tools of the UN security council, are prisoner to political gridlock and member state interests and who do sanctions really hurt in the long run anyway?
booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea’s isolated economy
shoppers in London and Seoul perusing hairpieces and other accoutrements will find labels telling them the items were made in China, not North Korea - but products are typically made with hair imported from China and assembled at low cost in the North, before being returned to Chinese businesses who export them all over the world
2mths ago Russia’s assault on the UN’s sanctions armoury intensified, when it vetoed the renewal of the panel of experts, an independent body that had monitored security council sanctions against North Korea since the country’s second nuclear test in 2009.
While the West struggles to find new ways to monitor sanctions, the panel of experts’ demise is likely to encourage Pyongyang and its allies to commit more violations