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Things commonly smuggled into North Korea’s surprisingly robust black market

By Jacob Templin
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North Korea has one of the most closed economies in the world, but items from bibles to K-pop videos find a way across its borders anyway. These are some of the most commonly smuggled items in the isolated country.

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