They’ve got a tonne of officially sanctioned markets dotted around the country too, those markets deal in stuff brought over the China border mostly. They’re susceptible and reachable if you set your cia op up inside China on the dprk border.
Issue is that China killed all the cia operatives.
Of course there are plenty of hanjian you can recruit from, but its not so easy to rebuild a spy network when the first one took multiple decades and got put in a blender in a matter of months.
The only vector for a spy network is the China border, and the security DPRK has against such a spy network is the CPC not allowing it to exist in their country.
I imagine if you could operate in China the cia would set up bars or brothels on the border with the DPRK and start getting access to some of these people smuggling goods back and forth. But China is willing to kill everyone it catches so nobody is willing to do it.
Im pretty sure NK actually does have capitalists. Most of them cooperatized, but there are special economic zones like china
They’ve got a tonne of officially sanctioned markets dotted around the country too, those markets deal in stuff brought over the China border mostly. They’re susceptible and reachable if you set your cia op up inside China on the dprk border.
Issue is that China killed all the cia operatives.
Of course there are plenty of hanjian you can recruit from, but its not so easy to rebuild a spy network when the first one took multiple decades and got put in a blender in a matter of months.
Yes precisely.
The only vector for a spy network is the China border, and the security DPRK has against such a spy network is the CPC not allowing it to exist in their country.
I imagine if you could operate in China the cia would set up bars or brothels on the border with the DPRK and start getting access to some of these people smuggling goods back and forth. But China is willing to kill everyone it catches so nobody is willing to do it.