The 25-year-old North Korean man knew there would be no turning back once he escaped from North Korea across to the Chinese side of the frozen Tumen River.
“I inhaled about ten hits before I went to the river,” said the man, who now lives in Seoul and asked for his name not to be used.
North Korea is experiencing a “drug epidemic,” according to a study published in the Spring 2013 edition of the journal North Korea Review.
http://blogs.wsj.com/korearealtime/2013/08/20/north-korea-grapples-with-crystal-meth-epidemic/ В Северной Корее эпидемия метамфетамина. Некоторые используют его как допинг при пересечении границы. Доступность и легкость изготовления сделали crystal meth самым популярным наркотиком в КНДР.