Norks exports drop drastically after nuke test

Daily Yomiuri:

North Korea's marine product exports, which are mainly exported to China and are a major earner of foreign currency for the country, have plunged significantly since Pyongyang conducted a nuclear test on Oct. 9, according to a Chinese customs official.

"Almost no marine products have been imported to China from North Korea recently," the official in Jilin Province told The Yomiuri Shimbun on Monday.

The official stopped short of citing reasons for the decrease, but a major fishery importer said that Chinese importers are very concerned about radiation contamination and are consequently reticent about buying North Korean marine products.

In Jilin Province--located next to North Korea's North Hamgyong Province where the nuclear test is said to have been conducted--concerns were raised over radiation contamination as soon as news of the test broke.

"We're trying to gather information from various channels," the importer said.

According to Chinese statistics, imports of marine products from North Korea dropped by 75 percent year-on-year to about 14.73 million dollars in the first half of this year.

If this trend continues, it likely will deal a blow to the North Korean economy.

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No kidding. It is hard to see how a fizzle bomb could create that much contamination from an undergroud explosion, but if people want to quit buying from the Norks that is a good thing what ever the reason. Apparently China's list of banned items from North Korea has expanded from 10 to 30 since the test.