{"id":64988,"date":"2024-06-18T08:47:50","date_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:47:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/north-korea-human-hair-export-trade-wigs-false-eyelashes"},"modified":"2024-06-18T08:47:50","modified_gmt":"2024-06-17T23:47:50","slug":"how-north-koreas-lucrative-trade-in-human-hair-is-helping-it-skirt-the-impact-of-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/?p=64988","title":{"rendered":"How North Korea\u2019s lucrative trade in human hair is helping it skirt the impact of sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s trade in wigs and false eyelashes is booming, offering a vital revenue stream to help it pursue its nuclear ambitions<\/p>\n<p>They almost certainly don\u2019t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North Korean slave labour.<\/p>\n<p>In recent years, a booming trade in human hair has helped to sustain North Korea\u2019s isolated economy, softening the impact of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/article\/2024\/jun\/17\/between-hollow-rhetoric-and-war-how-sanctions-work-and-why-they-often-dont\">international sanctions<\/a> and providing Pyongyang with vital revenue to pursue its nuclear ambitions.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/article\/2024\/jun\/18\/north-korea-human-hair-export-trade-wigs-false-eyelashes\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pyongyang\u2019s trade in wigs and false eyelashes is booming, offering a vital revenue stream to help it pursue its nuclear ambitionsThey almost certainly don\u2019t know it, but western owners of shiny new wigs and false eyelashes could owe their look to North&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":151,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"sns_share_botton_hide":"","vkExUnit_sns_title":"","_vk_print_noindex":"","sitemap_hide":"","_veu_custom_css":"","veu_display_promotion_alert":"","vkexunit_cta_each_option":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[41,50,40],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-64988","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-asia-pacific","category-china","category-north-korea"],"aioseo_notices":[],"veu_head_title_object":{"title":"","add_site_title":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64988","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/151"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=64988"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64988\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64989,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64988\/revisions\/64989"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=64988"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=64988"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/eastasianews.net\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=64988"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}