N. Korea vets Chinese trade partners amid crackdown

N. Korea vets Chinese trade partners amid crackdown

North Korea has ordered trade officials to submit detailed personal information on their Chinese business partners as part of a sweeping post-congress crackdown on unauthorized trade activity, a Daily NK source in Pyongyang reported on Monday.  The Ministry of External Economic Affairs — the cabinet-level body overseeing North Korea’s foreign trade and economic cooperation with other countries — launched inspections of trade workers engaged in C…