North Korean House of Cards
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numerous subordinate trade and foreign currency-earning entities, as well as finance,<br />
commerce, distribution, and service companies with overseas branches throughout<br />
Europe, China, and Southeast Asia. 399 Much <strong>of</strong> the modern industrial and revenue-generating<br />
infrastructure throughout the country was shifted from the state<br />
economy to the Party economy, including factories, trade units, and department<br />
stores. The funds they generated went into the Party c<strong>of</strong>fers, which Kim Jong-il used<br />
to maintain the system. 400<br />
Chart 6: Royal Economy Apparatus under Kim Jong-il<br />
Party<br />
Guard Command<br />
(Yun Jong-rin)<br />
Chongunsan Institute<br />
Chongunsan Trading Co.<br />
Kwangmyong Trading Co.<br />
Supreme Leader<br />
(Kim Jong-il)<br />
General<br />
Bureau 73<br />
Rungra 888 Trading Co.<br />
Kim Kyong-hui<br />
Unha Trading Corp.<br />
Kyonghung Guidance Bureau<br />
Nagwon Guidance Bureau<br />
KWP Administrative<br />
Department<br />
(Jang Song-taek)<br />
No. 2 Guidance Bureau<br />
727 Guidance Bureau<br />
Capital Construction<br />
General Bureau<br />
KWP Finance<br />
Department<br />
(Kim Hyo?)<br />
Bureau 8<br />
Bureau 24<br />
Pyongyang Information Center<br />
Sokyong General Trading Co.<br />
State<br />
Office 38<br />
(Kim Tong-un?)<br />
Koryo Guidance Bureau<br />
Yangkakdo Guidance Bureau<br />
Ryukyong Guidance Bureau<br />
Kumgang Guidance Bureau<br />
Office 39<br />
(Jon Il-chun)<br />
Daesong Guidance Bureau<br />
Kyonghung Guidance Bureau<br />
Rakwong Guidance Bureau<br />
Kumkang Guidance Bureau<br />
Daehung Guidance Bureau<br />
Daesong Bank<br />
Daesong Trading Co.<br />
Rung Ra-to Trading Co.<br />
KNIC<br />
KWP Machine<br />
(Munitions) Industry<br />
Department<br />
(Chu Kyu-chang)<br />
Office 99<br />
Changkwang<br />
Credit<br />
Bank<br />
Second<br />
Economy<br />
(Paek<br />
Se-pong)<br />
KWP Civil<br />
Defense Department<br />
114 Guidance Bureau<br />
External Economic Guidance Bureau<br />
SANS<br />
Yonhap Trading Co.<br />
Danchon Bank<br />
Daehung Trading Co.<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong><br />
People’s Armed<br />
Forces<br />
(Kim Yong-chun)<br />
Udok Guidance Bureau<br />
Paekho 7 Trading Co.<br />
Ministry <strong>of</strong><br />
People’s Security<br />
(Ri Myong-su)<br />
General Bureau 7<br />
General Bureau 8<br />
Kangsong Trading Co.<br />
State Security<br />
Department<br />
Customs General Bureau<br />
Sinhung Trading Co.<br />
Changsaeng Trading Co.<br />
Separate entity<br />
399 Hyon Song-il, <strong>North</strong> Korea’s National Strategy and Power Elite (Seoul: So’nin Publications, 2007).<br />
400 Hong Sung-Ki, “South Korea Needs New Policy on <strong>North</strong> Korea in Kim Jong Un Era,” Daily<br />
NK, September 2, 2015, http://www.dailynk.com/english/read.php?cataId=nk03600&num=13439. A<br />
recent article by Hong Sung-ki, a pr<strong>of</strong>essor at Ajou University, lays out a number <strong>of</strong> sources <strong>of</strong> funding<br />
that came into the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Korean</strong> regime since the end <strong>of</strong> the Kim Il-sung era and over the course <strong>of</strong> the<br />
Kim Jong-il era (1991-2012), a portion <strong>of</strong> which ended up in the Royal Economy. The total amount <strong>of</strong><br />
this funding was approximately $20 billion, including: $5.1 billion from international aid and “denuclearization<br />
pay<strong>of</strong>fs;” $4.8 billion from oil and coal trade with China; $4 billion in trade with South Korea<br />
(including pr<strong>of</strong>its from the Kaesong Industrial Complex and the Mt. Kumgang tourism); $3.9 billion<br />
from the <strong>North</strong> <strong>Korean</strong> service sector (including pr<strong>of</strong>its from Chinese tourism, foreign remittances, and<br />
shipping charges); $1.3 billion from overseas restaurants and other projects (outsourcing manual labor<br />
for overseas logging and mining companies); and $2.8 billion from pr<strong>of</strong>its from illicit operations (weapon<br />
sales and other illicit goods and services). This is an approximation, and the reader should not treat these<br />
individual numbers as ground truth. Other sources, for example, contend that the regime’s illicit operations<br />
netted much larger returns.<br />
Committee for Human Rights in <strong>North</strong> Korea<br />
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