North Korea produces 44 tons of opium a year

Posted on April 27, 2008
Filed Under Asia, global drug trade |

In 2005, available estimates of the North Korean drug trade placed opium production at 44 tons a year.

Source: Matthew Quirk, “The world in numbers: The New Opium War,” The Atlantic Monthly, March 2005, pg. 52-53.

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