{"id":15807,"date":"2017-10-19T09:00:47","date_gmt":"2017-10-19T13:00:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/?p=15807"},"modified":"2017-10-15T19:39:14","modified_gmt":"2017-10-15T23:39:14","slug":"north-korea-uses-art-to-evade-sanctions","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/2017\/north-korea-uses-art-to-evade-sanctions\/","title":{"rendered":"North Korea Uses Art To Evade Sanctions"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1546_NorthKoreaU1.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"640\" height=\"333\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Sue-Lin Wong, Giselda Vagnoni, and Fanny Potkin wrote about North Korea&#8217;s booming art market:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>UN sanctions on North Korea typically targeted trade in natural resources and services like finance.<\/li>\n<li>Art was seen as something that could build peace through mutual understanding and so was left untouched.<\/li>\n<li>North Korea saw an opportunity and built massive art studios employing thousands of people to sell art abroad.<\/li>\n<li>Foreign ambassadors were expected to promote North Korean art in global galleries.<\/li>\n<li>Sales of paintings and other work provided a source of hard, sanction-free cash, estimated to be worth tens of millions of dollars to the North Korean regime.<\/li>\n<li>Much of the demand came from China where a rising middle class is looking to purchase art \u2013 and was lured by the low cost of North Korean work.<\/li>\n<li>The UN wizened up and is now targeting North Korea&#8217;s art market with its sanctions too.<\/li>\n<li>But there are ways around the ban \u2013 and it&#8217;s a difficult one to enforce. Who knows for sure if a particular piece of work came from North Korea.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Read more on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/article\/us-northkorea-china-art-insight\/white-tiger-dark-horse-north-korean-art-market-heats-up-idUSKCN1C90Z0\">Reuters<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Sue-Lin Wong, Giselda Vagnoni, and Fanny Potkin wrote about North Korea&#8217;s booming art market: UN sanctions on North Korea typically targeted trade in natural resources and services like finance. Art was seen as something that could build peace through mutual understanding and so was left untouched. North Korea saw an opportunity and built massive art [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15806,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15807","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-daily-bulletin"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/101517_1546_NorthKoreaU1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15807"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15820,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15807\/revisions\/15820"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15807"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15807"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.Centives.net\/S\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15807"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}