BUSTED: "Is DELL Computer Aiding N. Korea [Weapons Program] In Violation of US Federal Law?"

Korean Central News Agency, (KCNA), North Korea ^ | 25 May 2010 | AmericanInTokyo

[AmericanInTokyo]

Just found this photo from Communist North Korea from several days ago apparantly during one of dictator Kim Jong il's "on the spot guidance tours".

and also here:

Note the manufacturer of the computer monitor (and presumably the hard drive itself) (Dell Computer, Round Rock, Texas, USA), which General Secretary Kim Jong-il is inspecting.

Link to article on North Korean news through Japanese website:

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[Tainan]

Given your self-proclaimed familiarity with the export regulations regarding high tech materials being shipped outside the the USA it is rather odd that you fail to appreciate what is involved in this matter.
Its not merely a case of 'look at the picture "Its a Dell!"
Its matter that it is a chain of events that has led to Dell products being found in a country which is sanctioned by said export regulations.

Somehow, some way these items are where they are prohibited from being.

This, IMO, is the gist of this thread.

I also work in several areas where compliance with export regs are required and it is not something to be treated lightly. I have witnessed the incarceration, for 16 months, of a person for merely having export controlled documents traced back to him and his business after being sold to a legitimate recipient. These were then transferred to a 3rd party who was on the "No Go" list.

In light of this it is my opinion that the questions raised by AIT are relevant. He is asking what is the trail that led to these items showing up in Lil Kim Land.

Frankly, you're looking rather foolish in your comments. If you indeed are in the business you profess to be in you should already understand these matters.

While I will fully agree that it is no hard matter for NK to be in posession of these export controlled items - given their probable manufacture in the PRC/CCP and the relative ease of NK agents buying and getting them to NK - it is none-the-less an interesting exercise in finding the trail that got them to these photos.

[DB]

Get a dose of reality.

There are millions of Dell computers in the world. It is a physical impossibility for anyone to know where all these computers are or what hands they've passed through getting there.

They are sold in China, they are sold in South Korea. Need more be said? Controlled or not, it isn't surprising one or more found their way into NK. Short of a full blockade they are going to find there way there law or no law.

Foolish is thinking there is any realistic way to "find the trail" or that there is any use in doing so for a $600 commodity computer who's equivalent can be purchased under any number of brand names in virtually every country on the planet.

Foolish is comparing commodity computers which there are millions of loose all over the world to the leaking of a controlled document - unless your "controlled document" is the New York Times newspaper which would be a valid comparison.

Foolish is the title of this thread.

There was a time when conservatives cared about truth. The title of this thread is pure slime worthy of DU and Halliburton.