Word: chongryun
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...effort to choke the Kim regime economically would have to crack down on the traffic between Pyongyang and the liner's sponsor, Chongryun, the secretive 250,000-member General Association of Korean Residents in Japan, which is under the direct control of Pyongyang. The group is at the heart of a shadowy fund-raising effort that sends between $600 million and $1 billion annually to North Korea, most of it for the Kim regime itself. The funds are Pyongyang's biggest source of hard currency. Japanese intelligence says Chongryun also covertly purchases equipment for the North's nuclear and missile...