Posted on 04/08/2005 8:36:51 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Railways chief: Russia could supply oil to N.Korea by rail
12:17 2005-03-21
Russian investors are in talks with North Korea on supplying the energy-starved country with oil by rail, Russia's railways chief said Monday in the Far Eastern city of Khabarovsk.
Head of the state-run Russian Railways, Gennady Fadeyev, said that a project was under consideration to build a railway line linking the Russian border crossing of Khasan to an oil refinery in the nearby North Korean port of Najin, the Interfax news agency reported.
"As far as I know, plans are being considered to build a railway line linking Khasan and an oil refinery in the North Korean port of Najin. There are investors interested in supplying Russian oil to North Korea for refining," he said.
The minister gave no further details of the Russian parties involved in the negotiations or the financing.
North Korea's isolated Stalinist regime has faced energy shortages since Washington cut off energy aid in 2002. It said that Pyongyang had admitted running a nuclear program in violation of a 1994 agreement that gave the impoverished country fuel supplies and help in building two civilian nuclear reactors in exchange for abandoning its nuclear weapons ambitions.
North Korea, which declared last month it had developed an atomic bomb, has refused to attend a fourth round of six-nation talks aimed at brokering a settlement to end Pyongyang's nuclear weapons program, accusing Washington of a hostile policy.
Moscow, which is one of the six countries involved in the frozen talks, had close ties with Pyongyang in Soviet times and maintains cordial relations.
Associated Press
Ping!
Russia does just touch N Kor. It is a narrow strip of land along the coast. If there is a problem with China, they could transport by sea, which they could do already.
Oil will prop up the heroin trade regime.
Moscow, which is one of the six countries involved in the frozen talks, had close ties with Pyongyang in Soviet times and maintains cordial relations.
Ok, you just gots to aks you self what kind of fool
has "cordial relations" with that nutcase.
Thats like saying you have "cordial relations with the crips and bloods or with M-13!!!
If you are a former KGB spook, you are capable of developing cordial relations with anybody.:-)
Alas, the infernal dualities of the modern age.
Is the oil going to be free? What has Kim Jong-il got to trade? It can only accomplish so much anyway. I read that most of the power transmission system has been stolen for scrap.
I suspect that he will be paid with oil. They only have to fix the short span of railways up North Eastern tip of N. Korea. It should not cost much.
This is another way of getting oil. Putin always sneak up and nip at you whenever we are about to forget about him.
There is no such thing as a former KGB spook.
Of course, unofficially, there is no such thing. I am just going by his official job title.:-)
Everything in Russia involves $ now...so its difficult to see how this will be paid for...even drugs would not be enough to make this operation work. There has to be some major export that Kim is gearing up for...that will make a lot of cash.
BUT OF COURSE DUH he is KGB Agent LOL!
I am not suprise that Vlad is supply oil to Little Chia pet aka Little Kim
"Incidentally, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea has one interesting form of payment, namely, the
export of labour to Russia. It has been reported that about 12,000 North Koreans are now working in
Russia's Far East. During his last visit, Kim Jong-il supposedly offered to send 2,500 to 3,000 workers to
Russia."
http://www.newtimes.ru/eng/detail.asp?art_id=582
RE: Drugs. Estimates of drug revenue range from $100 million to $500 million a year.
June 1994 Russian Federal Counterintelligence Service (former KGB) arrested two North Koreans as they attempted to smuggle 15kg of heroin on the Korean-Russian border near Khasan.
November 1996 A North Korean was arrested smuggling 22g of opium into Khasan, Russia.
July 1997 A North Korean woodcutter was arrested smuggling 5kg of opium at Khavarovsk, Russia.
January 1998 Two North Korean diplomats based in Mexico were arrested smuggling 35kg of cocaine into Russia.
February 1999 Two North Korean diplomats were arrested smuggling 70kg of cocaine into Russia.
The True Story behind White Bellflower
http://www.dailynk.com/english/keys/2003/14/05.php
State-sponsored heroin trafficking : North Korea
http://opioids.com/korea/
In 2000, there were at least five reported incidents of North Korean officials smuggling opium and heroin into the Russian Far East or RFE.
All true...but all before 2000...and most were small-town shipments. For NK to be a major drug enterprise in the world...it has to pump a huge amount of drugs out...and that will cut the price across the globe. And lets face it...its tough to beat those Colombian guys on cocaine prices. I think NK has some other scheme in mind. Kim might even get to the point of doing human slave operations. He has a million north korean women that he could market...perhaps thats the way they get ahead.
N. Korea has heroine as well as METH operations. If my memory is correct, half of METH used in Japan is from N. Korea. N. Korea is really tight with Japanese crime syndicates(Yakuza.)
These operations are still on-going. It is just that proceeds from this lucrative operation are poured into existing projects. Kim also stashed away $4.3 billion in various foreign bank accounts. N. Koreans are starving to death. However, Kim is a billionaire awash in cash.
Kim's big trouble is that he really can't spend the money. Everything he does has to be hidden. If he wanted a Porsche...he'd have to build a hidden track to drive. If he wanted western women...he'd have to kidnap them (which he has done already). He really is an interesting character and I can't understand why a hollywood producer doesn't make a movie on the guy. I watched the puppet movie with Kim as a star...and laughed all the way through it. But I think a real movie ought to be made...show the Kim that really does exist.
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