Hosting proms and selling cows: N Korean embassies scrounge for cash

North Korean embassies have spent decades running cash-raising schemes, nearly all of them illicit under current international law

While the embassies of most countries promote the interests of companies back home, North Korea’s are in business for themselves.
 
A series of tough sanctions by the United Nations and an executive order recently signed by President Trump have sought to economically isolate the nuclear-armed regime of Kim Jong-un. But Pyongyang has held on to an array of profit-making ventures, some of which operate in the roughly 40 embassies of the hermit kingdom.
 
Many of these enterprises are hard to trace, but at least one is impossible to miss. For years, neighbours have complained about the noise coming