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Revealed: North Korea’s Sesame Street Export Business

Is Sesame Street Toy Production Being Unwittingly Outsourced to North Korea, or Is This a Bizarre Case of North Korean Bootlegging?
NK News January 8, 2013
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Revealed: North Korea’s Sesame Street Export Business
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North Korea's Kyonghung Toy Factory is producing Sesame Street merchandise for the international market, NK NEWS can exclusively reveal.

The toy manufacturer's Sesame Street line was found among a series of otherwise non-branded children's products in a full-page advert in the latest edition of North Korea's quarterly Foreign Trade magazine.

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