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Fur coats and strength pills: North Korea’s curious exports

A fur coat company and pills with remarkable benefits featured in DPRK's Foreign Trade Magazine

Fur coats and pills that claim to increase strength are among some of North Korea’s more unusual exports, according to the most recent issue of Foreign Trade magazine, a publication which covers DPRK companies looking to sell their products abroad.

The magazine has a two-page spread featuring the Taehung Fur Trading Corporation, a North Korean company which makes leather, fur garments and artificial furs for export, claiming to have shipped its products to “Asia and Europe.”

“The corporation is striving to further develop furskin (sic) processing techniques, put the production lines on a modern footing and and strengthen exchanges and