Yesterday's Western: How North Korea's embassy in Berlin became a hub for smugglers and drug couriers

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The Stasi was uncomfortable with the goings-on on Glinkastraße. Before North Korea’s ruler Kim Il-sung arrived in a special train at Berlin’s Ostbahnhof in June 1984, Stasi officers noted that North Korea’s embassy in the GDR had been repeatedly used for weapons, drugs and high-tech smuggling under their governor Pak Hyon-bo.

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