Like those of many North Korean outposts, the duties of the Cairo embassy extend well beyond diplomacy. In Africa especially, North Korean diplomats have engaged in a wide variety of ruses and schemes to earn hard currency, UN investigators say. UN inspectors and North Korean defectors say the Cairo embassy has become a bustling arms bazaar for covert sales of North Korean missiles and cut-price Soviet-era military hardware across a band of North Africa and the Middle East. The North Korean crew had been sent home, which meant the inspectors could not interview them. At the North Korean Embassy in Cairo, now under a new ambassador, business continues as usual.

Source: The North Africa Journal March 04, 2018 06:00 UTC