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Posted on 12/11/2002 9:45:31 AM PST by areafiftyone
The United States has agreed to release a North Korean ship that carried Scud-type missiles destined to Yemen, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. Yemen had protested the high-seas seizure by Spanish and U.S. forces and demanded the release of the cargo, which it said was intended for the country’s military.
EARLIER ON WEDNESDAY, Jim Miklaszweski reported U.S. military officials were frustrated at Yemen, which is ostensibly an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism. They said Yemen had previously denied ownership of the cargo, but now that the government has claimed the arsenal, the United States has no choice under international law but to release the weapons.
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All this cloak and dagger stuff with hiding it under cement, and the missle not being on the ship's manefesto will do nothing but raise suspition.
Dec. 11 — The United States has agreed to release a North Korean ship that carried Scud-type missiles destined to Yemen, a senior U.S. administration official said Wednesday. Yemen had protested the high-seas seizure by Spanish and U.S. forces and demanded the release of the cargo, which it said was intended for the country’s military.
EARLIER ON WEDNESDAY, Jim Miklaszweski reported U.S. military officials were frustrated at Yemen, which is ostensibly an ally in the U.S. war on terrorism.
They said Yemen had previously denied ownership of the cargo, but now that the government has claimed the arsenal, the United States has no choice under international law but to release the weapons.
On Wednesday, Yemen’s foreign minister, Abu Bakr al-Kerbi, summoned U.S. Ambassador Edmund J. Hull to protest the seizure. The U.S. Embassy had no comment.
“The minister informed the ambassador that the shipment was bound to Yemen and that the missiles were only to be used in defensive purposes,” a Yemeni official told The Associated Press.
A statement run by the state-owned Saba news agency said Yemen stressed the importance of the return of the shipment to the Yemeni government.
Yemen also sent a formal protest to Spain, whose warships intercepted the North Korean vessel.
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THE UNITED STATES IS RIGHT NOW IN A WORLD REGION POISED FOR MASSIVE, BLOODY WAR IN THE NEXT FEW MONTHS, IT CONDEMNS PYONGYANG AS AN "EMPIRE OF EVIL" AND SPECIFICALLY HITS IT FOR EXPORTING MISSILES, AND YET THE US ADMINISTRATION ALLOWS SCUD MISSILE DELIVERIES, DISGUISED, FROM NORTH KOREA TO PASS THROUGH TO THE VERY REGION IT IS POISED FOR WAR.
State Department wins again. This is an outrage. The Scud B (probably B since I noted Russian cyrillic writing on the equipment) missiles should have been destroyed, our brought back to the US for complete analysis.
What, after all, is Yemen and Pyongyang going to do if we hold on to them?
This gives Pyongyang the green light to keep exporting missiles to the sensitive Middle East, but next time just hid them better.
The SCUD Ship has entered the Twilight Zone and had traveled back the Clinton Administration where America let the North Koreans sell missiles to rogue states.
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