Gold dealers arrested as North Korea targets illicit bullion market

2026-02-13 - 06:56

As North Korea launched a fresh crackdown on the illicit gold trade in early February 2025, state security agents in North Pyongan province arrested several mid-level dealers working in the Sinuiju black market and opened investigations into others operating near the Unsan and Chonma county mining areas, sending a chill through connected underground markets. “While the authorities had been... Source