Opinion: 90,000 Vodka Bottles Were Bound For North Korea, While Its People Starve
NPR's Scott Simon reflects on the seizure of 90,000 bottles of Russian vodka destined for North Korea's elite. A look at what this means for the regime's treatment of regular citizens.
by Scott Simon
Mar 02, 2019
1 minute
This week, just as President Trump and Kim Jong Un prepared to meet in Hanoi — for what turned out to be their abrupt and unproductive summit — Dutch customs officials discovered and seized about 90,000 bottles of Russian, .
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