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Date : June 5, 2018
Crackdown on informal pharma sales
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Authorities crackdown on informal pharma sales, sending drug prices up


The North Korean authorities have launched a campaign to confiscate informally-traded products in the name of cracking down on anti-socialism trends, report inside sources.

Crackdowns and product confiscations have been leveled at residents who are selling products from their private homes without a permit, an inside source from North Hamgyong Province told Daily NK during a telephone call on June 1.

Just in the city of Chongjin alone, dozens of families have been targeted, resulting in significant penalties.

A number of individuals who hold pharmaceutical licenses or a doctors certification, but not a sales license, have also been subjected to the crackdowns. Some have lost all their inventory and sales proceeds, making it difficult for them to survive, the source continued. .....

[Source: Daily NK]

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