North Korea Has a Meth Problem, an Unstable Leader—and Nukes

North Korea Has a Meth Problem, an Unstable Leader—and Nukes | The Fiscal Times:
"We already know that North Korea has nuclear weapons, an insecure and possibly unstable leader, and a habit of lashing out with borderline-insane threats whenever it feels threatened.
Now it has a crystal meth crisis.
This can’t end well.
The recent admission of a British citizen that he had participated in a plan to move 100 kilograms of high-purity crystal methamphetamine from the hermit kingdom of North Korea to the U.S. raises all sorts of questions.
But for most people, the first one that pops up is, “Wait, North Korea has a crystal meth problem?”
It turns out it does, and it’s pretty serious. 
According to reporting done by a number of international news organizations, the movement of crystal meth over the country’s northern border and into China reached epidemic levels earlier this year, causing a brutal crackdown by the government on one of the very few elements of the nation’s economy that the government doesn’t control.
The official response was not widely advertised, no doubt because the official line out of leader Kim Jong Un’s government is that there is absolutely no drug use in North Korea..."