By Is anyone surprised at all by this news?:
Iran has imported piles of North Korean-made conventional weapons, the Washington Post reported Thursday, even though both countries are under UN sanctions over their nuclear programs. Weapons also went to two Palestinian militant organizations, the Iran-backed Hezbollah and the Islamist Hamas, the paper said.
To avoid international pursuit, the North Korean weapons were “shipped halfway around the globe in sealed containers, labeled as oil-drilling supplies, that passed through a succession of freighters and ports,” including China, Southeast Asia and the Dubai free trade zone, before reaching Iran, it said. [Chosun Ilbo]
Make sure to read the rest of the article to see China’s complicity in the smuggling of these weapons to Iran. I am still wondering if any of the detonators sent to Iran from North Korea is being used in IEDS against American troops in Iraq and Afghanistan?
6:42 pm on December 4th, 2009 1
I find it interesting that these containers can be tracked so well. Was it blind luck that exposed the scam or solid intelligence?
7:24 pm on December 4th, 2009 2
Aren’t small arms exempt from the embargo?
8:38 pm on December 4th, 2009 3
“the ship carried 2,030 detonators for 122 mm multiple rocket launchers, as well as electric circuitry and solid-fuel propellant for rockets.”
Not considered “small arms”.
2:48 am on December 5th, 2009 4
Didn’t read that part.
6:52 pm on December 5th, 2009 5
You have disappointed me.