North Korea 'trading nuclear technology' says UN panel

[pampango]

Source: BBC

A United Nations panel has accused North Korea of continuing to export nuclear and missile technology in defiance of a UN ban. The experts said North Korea has used front companies and intermediaries to sell weapons and provide illegal assistance to Iran, Syria and Burma.

The 47-page report outlined a broad range of techniques used by North Korea to evade sanctions imposed by the UN after the North's nuclear tests of 2006 and 2009, the Associated Press reports. Among a number of "masking techniques", it said the North describes exports falsely, mislabels shipping container contents, falsifies information about the destinations of goods and uses "multiple layers of intermediaries, shell companies, and financial institutions".

An unnamed diplomat told Reuters the findings were "not entirely surprising". "The point is that North Korea has been providing that kind of aid to Iran, Syria and Burma," he said.

The report comes before a crucial day of talks in New York about the future of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty. It also comes at a time of increased tension surrounding what international investigators say was a deadly North Korean torpedo attack on a South Korean warship in March.

Read more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/world/asia_pacific/10180497.stm

[cosmicone]

1. NK also trades with Pakistan

which has been conveniently omitted.

[Posteritatis]

2. Pakistan probably has less need of North Korean nuclear/missile technology

Their mini-Cold War with India's left them reasonably well-off in those regards.

[cosmicone]

3. Actually, Pakistan would have been well behind

if not for help from North Korea and China.

Even the so called Pakistani missiles are made in NK and given local Pakistani names of horribly brutal and genocidal Islamic warriors like Gaznavi and Ghauri and Shaheen etc.