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Sunday, 6th December 2009

North Korea

It's no go for Noko jeans A SWEDISH department store yesterday removed a new line of North Korean-made designer jeans from its shelves, saying it wants to avoid ties with the isolated communist nation.

Currency clampdown by North Korea NORTH Korea has threatened "merciless punishment" for anyone defying new currency rules, introduced without warning, which have revalued its currency at 100 old won to one new won.

Opening doors on trade with the wider world NORTH Korea's surprise move to revalue its currency may, some analysts said, be the start of economic reforms, just as the reclusive state readies to resume negotiations over its nuclear weapons programme with the outside world, heralded by the

Diplomats facing smuggling charges SWEDISH police have arrested two North Korean diplomats on suspicion of smuggling 230,000 cigarettes into the Nordic country, its Customs Office has reported.

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