South Korean Government Announces a “War on Drugs”
Here is the latest sign of the growing drug problem in South Korea:
![A police official gives a press briefing on the arrest of nine suspects who distributed 2.9 kilograms of methamphetamine smuggled into Korea from Southeast Asia at the Seoul Metropolitan Police Agency in central Seoul on Wednesday. [YONHAP]](https://i0.wp.com/koreajoongangdaily.joins.com/data/photo/2022/10/03/34cfdb56-89d7-4340-8917-5c6efb0fa597.jpg?w=640&ssl=1)
The Yoon Suk-yeol administration is assembling a task force to fight the drug trade and the use of drugs, according to a number of administration sources who spoke off the record.
“Preparations for a war on drugs is happening at a fast pace,” a high-ranking presidential official told the JoongAng Ilbo by phone Sunday. “It is a matter of the country protecting its people.”
The initiative comes as Korea faces a flood of illegal substances from overseas and as the use of drugs becomes more widespread in a society once known as essentially drug free. (…..)The “war on drugs” will involve the formation of a pan-governmental joint investigation team with the prosecution and police partnered with related agencies, such as the National Intelligence Service (NIS) and the Korea Customs Service, the sources said.
Joong Ang Ilbo
Large cities, like Seoul, Busan and Incheon, are expected to be key areas for the crackdown to block the entry of drugs into Korea.
“The prosecution has already started the basic work to crack down on the overseas supply chain,” a member of the conservative People Power Party (PPP) said.
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Kim III will be upset with that.
Pyongyang is the pilipon manufacturing capital of the peninsula.
There’s been pressure on Yoon to crackdown on the Korean wave of drug use by k-poppers.
e.g. Kim Min-su (AKA k-pop composer Don Spike) recently busted by Seoul Northern District’s finest for spiking his second tea with North Korea’s finest.