North Korea ‘flooding Britain with fake £2 Viagra pills to help fund nuclear weapons programme’
Reports come just weeks after brutal regime – run by chubby dictator Kim Jong-un – successfully tested ballistic missile that landed in the Sea of Japan
NORTH Korea is selling fake Viagra pills to unsuspecting Brits to help fund their nuclear weapons programme, it has been claimed.
The reports hundreds of websites have been set up to sell the counterfeit drugs.
They claim the scheme is part of a wider effort to raise money which also includes selling fake DVDs and banknotes.
North Korea is run by plump dictator Kim Jong-un and it is claimed the fakes can have severe side effects such as impotency.
The dud pills can be sold on the web for £2 each and have been bought in more than 100 countries, raking in £500million a year for the brutal regime, the Star claims.
The newspaper cites intelligence sources to support its report who claim that the counterfeits are made by a slave labour force in a factory near the capital Pyongyang.
These sources also say that the duds are tried on some of the workers – some of whom have died from heart attacks and breathing difficulties.
One insider said: "Counterfeiting is a state-funded enterprise in North Korea. They have no real exports so they manufacture lots of fake drugs and target Western markets."
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The report comes just weeks after North Korea successfully tested a ballistic missile that landed in the Sea of Japan.
The pariah state is understood to be developing a long-range test missile capable of hitting the USA across the Pacific Ocean.
The fear among security experts is that, should they be successful, it would be possible to attach a nuclear warhead to the missile.
It is understood that the market for buying Viagra online exists because men are too embarrassed to ask their GP for it and that the NHS only issues four pills at a time.
Last year drug regulators issued a warning that organised crime gangs were moving from selling recreational drugs to producing unlicensed medicines.
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