Zokwang Trading

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company_name = Zokwang Trading
company_type = State-owned
foundation = 1974
location_city = Zhuhai
location_country = People's Republic of China
key_people =
industry = Import-export

Zokwang Trading Company is a North Korean state-run import-export business based out of Zhuhai, China. [No Cut News 2005-12-20] It was founded in 1974 in Macau, then a colony of Portugal, soon after the new Portuguese government installed by the Carnation Revolution established diplomatic relations with North Korea. [FEER 2001-10-25] Kim Hyon Hui stated in her autobiography "Tears of my Soul" that she and Kim Sung Il had used Zokwang Trading's office as a base while living in Macau, learning Cantonese so that she and other North Korean agents could pose as Macau or Hong Kong locals; the United States government has also made accusations that Zokwang Trading are engaged in arms sales [FEER 2001-10-25] and other illegal technology transfer. [Korea Herald 1994-01-19.] In 2005, Zokwang Trading's accounts with Macanese banks Banco Delta Asia and Seng Heng were closed at the request of US financial regulators; sometime the following year, they moved across the border to Zhuhai. [Yonhap 2006-10-16]

Zokwang Trading are not on the official list of North Korean companies published by the DPRK portal site Naenara. [Naenara: [http://web.archive.org/web/20050920201835/http://www.kcckp.net/en/trade/trade-company.php] ]

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