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British banker set up firm ‘used by North Korea to sell weapons’
The Guardian ^ | April 4, 2016 | Garside and Harding

Posted on 04/04/2016 5:40:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper

A British banker who spent two decades living in communist North Korea set up a secret offshore finance company allegedly used by the Pyongyang regime to help sell arms and expand its nuclear weapons programme.

Nigel Cowie – a fluent Korean and Chinese speaker, who studied at Edinburgh University – was behind a Pyongyang front company, DCB Finance Limited, registered in the British Virgin Islands, papers show.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: uk

1 posted on 04/04/2016 5:40:21 PM PDT by Berlin_Freeper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

Hey, another Edinburgh Un. traitor/story at today’s FR. The other was the “handraising” PC rules story.

No wonder they never have a British crime mystery tv series based on Edinburgh. They’d have to lock up the whole university for stupidity, criminality, and treason.

For those who watch British crime shows, we could call this one “Re-Morse”.


2 posted on 04/04/2016 5:51:38 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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To: Berlin_Freeper

“To hell with you Jack, I’ve got mine.”


3 posted on 04/04/2016 6:04:52 PM PDT by Steely Tom (Vote GOP: A Slower Handbasket)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

How did they recruit him? Dumb bunny.


4 posted on 04/04/2016 6:10:10 PM PDT by NormsRevenge (SEMPER FI!! - Monthly Donors Rock!!)
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To: NormsRevenge

Re “How did they recruit him?”

Perhaps he had a $YEN for No. Korean kimchee because he probably didn’t have a yen for the No. Korean DONG.


5 posted on 04/04/2016 6:39:40 PM PDT by MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
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