[Red] Chinese firms breaking UN embargo on North Korea

The Telegraph ^ | 6/8/2012 | Julian Ryall, Tokyo

[bruinbirdman]

Chinese firms are breaking a United Nations embargo by supplying North Korea with key components for ballistic missiles including launch vehicles, according to evidence provided by an intelligence agency in the region.

Fake missile?

Classified documents seen by The Daily Telegraph show that Beijing has failed to act when confronted with evidence that Chinese companies are breaking UN Resolution 1874 and helping North Korea to build long range missiles.

This measure, passed with China's support on June 12, 2009, strengthens an arms embargo by urging all UN members to inspect North Korean cargoes and destroy any items linked to the country's missile or nuclear programmes.

But a study compiled by the intelligence agency of a country in the region shows how North Korean companies are continuing to buy banned materials in China. These entities "have been smuggling in or out controlled items by either setting up and operating a front company in China, or colluding with Chinese firms to forge documents and resorting to other masking techniques," says the report.

The companies include the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation, known as KOMID, which deals in weapons and military equipment and has been singled out for UN sanctions.

Launch vehicles for long range missiles are among the items illegally purchased inside China. North Korea is currently trying to develop an intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM) that would be able to reach the United States. The country has already built a handful of nuclear bombs.

"The North Korean entities subject to UN sanctions are known to have been deeply involved in the North Korean procurement of Chinese ICBM transporter-erector-launcher vehicles," says the report.

In August 2011, Changgwang Trading Corporation, a front company for KOMID, bought four lorries in China that were then altered into ICBM launchers and displayed

[GraceG]

Well we won’t as hell stop them, we owe them too much money...

Isn’t it nice to be beholden to such a wonderful country...

[doc1019]

When you have a world leader that is a wuss, what can you expect. The Chinese feel that there is no challenge out there and they will react accordingly.

[BwanaNdege]

What is it about China, North Korea and Client State that makes it so hard for journalists to connect three dots?

[TomasUSMC]

Keep shopping at Walmart!

[yldstrk]

N Korea is China’s problem.. China is the world’s problem

[VanShuyten]

Chinese companies are breaking UN Resolution 1874 and helping North Korea to build long range missiles. .

Duh

[PhilDragoo]

Siegfried Hecker of the Centre for International Security and Cooperation, said North Korea has enough plutonium for about four to eight "simple" bombs, but does not yet appear to have the ability to make bombs small enough to mount on a missile. (Phil's note: So they send them to Bolivia with the IRGC and the Sinaloa Cartel passes them to Eric Holder in a container labelled "Automatic Weapons Recovered from Operation Fast and Furious" hauled to an ATF depot in Virginia) North Korea boasts of defeating US with 'single blow'