The willful subsidization of the North Korean military continues:

North Korea has been increasing ground and air maneuvers since December, military sources said Sunday, amid concerns that the North might have been diverting some of the heavy fuel oil provided under a multilateral denuclearization deal.

South Korea and four other countries in the six-party nuclear talks provided more than 100,000 tons of heavy oil to the North last year under the nuclear deal in exchange for the North’s disablement of its nuclear facilities and declaration of all of its nuclear programs by the end of last year.

In return, Pyongyang was also supposed to receive other economic and political benefits, although the talks stalled recently over the North’s failure to provide a complete list of its nuclear programs.

"Intelligence authorities of South Korea and the United States have been analyzing the sharp increase in the North’s winter maneuvering of armoured units," a military soure said Sunday. "They have recently conducted both armoured unit maneuvers and artillery strike training concurrently, although they had usually focused on artillery strikes."
The source attributed the increased mechanized unit maneuvering to improvement in oil supply in the North, questioning the source of the oil spent on the military training amid skyrocketing crude prices in the international market. [Yonhap]

The oil was supposed to go to help freezing North Koreans survive the winter, instead it is being used in tanks and other military vehicles all in the name of the Six Party Charade.  I’m sure our State Department is proud.  Anyway I don’t have time to expand on this further, so I will direct everyone to go over to One Free Korea where he has great posting about this latest subsidization of the North Korean military. 

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