North Korea targets currency traders with undercover operatives as won crisis deepens

2026-03-16 - 01:43

North Korea has drawn its sharpest response yet to a currency crisis, deploying undercover security cadets and newly assigned officers to crack down on illegal foreign exchange trading in markets across the country. A source in Ryanggang province told Daily NK on Thursday that the Cabinet and the Ministry of Social Security issued a directive on March 3 concluding that lax law enforcement was... Source