Posted on 04/12/06
Pinball bumper business for N. Korea, Japan fears
TOKYO -- Gambling at pachinko was a lot more fun for Reiko Kuzuhara before she began to wonder whether maybe -- just maybe -- her losses were helping North Korea build nuclear weapons.Pachinko, a form of pinball deeply loved in Japan, is an industry run by ethnic Koreans, and experts have long believed that the revenues are a vital source of hard currency for the North's impoverished regime.
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