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SANCTIONS CIRCUMVENTED. A North Korean woman walks outside Bugsae Shop, one of the stores
known as the Singapore shops, in Pyongyang, North Korea. Despite the unwanted publicity of a criminal trial for
one of their main suppliers, business is booming at Pyongyang’s Singapore shops, which sell everything from
Ukrainian vodka to brand-name knockoffs from China. (AP Photo/Dita Alangkara)
North Korea’s “Singapore shops”
expose gap in sanctions push
By Eric Talmadge
The Associated Press
YONGYANG, North Korea —
Despite the unwanted publicity of
a criminal trial for one of their
main suppliers, business is booming at
Pyongyang’s “Singapore shops,” which sell
everything from Ukrainian vodka to
brand-name knockoffs from China. The
stores stock many of the very things
United Nations’ (U.N.) sanctions banning
trade in luxury goods are intended to block
and provide a nagging reminder that not
all potential trade partners are lining up
behind the U.N.’s pronouncements or the
Trump
administration’s
policy
of
maximum pressure on the North.
Especially when there’s a buck — or a
few million bucks — to be made.
The stores are anything but secret.
They are well marked, open to walk-ins,
and distribute their own membership
cards to reward regular customers. Until
recently, the name of their Singaporean
partner, the OCN Group, was printed on
the Bugsae Shop’s plastic shopping bags.
And while being the focus of the court case
that could land OCN’s former director in
prison for a very long time, they continue
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to unabashedly specialize in imported
products — perfumes, fine jewelry, wines,
clothing, and cosmetics — that would ap-
pear to blatantly violate U.N. restrictions.
Formally known as the Potonggang
Ryugyong Shop and the Bugsae Shop, the
stores are a fixture of the upscale shopping
scene in Pyongyang, catering to the
capital’s elites, Chinese businessmen, and
members of the diplomatic corps.
Purchases can be made in dollars, euros,
and Chinese yuan. The price in each is
displayed digitally on the cash register.
Both stores have been substantially
renovated since last summer.
The Ryugyong store now has a coffee
shop behind the imported shoe section on
its second floor. The Bugsae Shop has
installed dark wood panelling and glass
casing for its wines and spirits corner,
which was recently dominated by vodkas
from the Ukraine. It has separate display
areas for snacks and soft drinks from
Japan, Malaysia, and China, a row
dedicated to fancy shampoos, and a section
in the rear for imported electronic
appliances and household goods.
The well-stocked shelves belie the hit
supplies must have taken with the arrest
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