S. Korea Government Forms Center to Collect Intelligence on Int’l Drug Smuggling

On June 9, 1993, the South Korean media reported that the South Korean’s Agency for National Security Planning is establishing its own center to collect intelligence on international drug smuggling, in response to what the agency reportedly stated was a “sharp increase” in the use of South Korea as a transit point by “international drug syndicates.” The establishment of a center to collect intelligence on international drug smuggling reflects a trend by governments to have a nationally based agency collect intelligence on drug trafficking and related crimes, such as money laundering, as a means to use resources more effectively to combat drug trafficking…[more]