Agency handling business deals with China called key to Jang’s rise and fall

By World Tribune on January 9, 2014   BB NE Asia, China, Exclusives, Intel Brief, NE Asia, North Korea, Top Stories  

Special to WorldTribune.com By Lee Jong-Heon, East-Asia-Intel.com SEOUL — Pyongyang’s “Department 54” was integral to North Korea’s struggle to acquire foreign currency and was at the center of the recent bloody purges, officials and analysts here said. They added that another power struggle is likely shortly over who will control the agency which runs projects like coal […]