The incredible ascension of the North Korean mafia

World News Nilgun Salim
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The Pyongyang authorities are slowly but surely losing control over the local market

The weakness has generated a widespread area for corrupt organizations, writes the South Korean daily Nk, quoting various sources from North Korea.

According to the same source, the Supreme Leader has only one interest in this segment of North Korea’s national economy: tax-collecting considering the fact that a regulation system is completely missing from the picture and the North Korea mafia took over everything.

The same sources claim most members of the North Korean mafia originate from the country’s privileged class, known in the peninsula as “donju”.

Apparently, these economic elites are currently struggling to impose monopolies on specific product lines.

Not only once, the donju traders have stood against the government in order to defend their interests because they have influential people behind them.

However, paying significant bribed to certain officials makes them untouchable.

Basically, there are two economic branches in North Korea: the official state, molded according to the rules of the Soviet centralism, currently followed by the entire population of the state and behind this facade lies the unofficial economy, the capitalist consumption, the “class enemy” of Pyongyang’s ideology, but the “intimate friend” of those composing the privileged hierarchy of Kim Jong-un.