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N. Korean Missile Export... Blocked by China(a factor in forcing missile launches?)
MBC (SKor TV) ^ | 09/04/06 | Shin Kyung-min

Posted on 09/04/2006 4:42:41 PM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

N. Korean Missile Export... Blocked by China

[MBC TV 2006-09-04 21:30]

(Translator's Note: This is the transcript of an evening news segment)

[News Desk]

Anchor: N. Korea's missile export is being blocked.

After shipment by sea had been blocked, N. Korea has been trying to use air shipment, but China is blocking it, according to what we have found.

Sino-N. Korean relation is not what it used to be.

Correspondent Shin Kyung-min will be reporting.

Correspondent: S. Korean government confirmed to us that N. Korean planes carrying missile components have been blocked by China from using Chinese airspace on many occasions since 2005.

U.S. intelligence monitoring N. Korea tipped off information on (N. Korean) air shipment of missile components, and China followed on it.

It is rather noteworthy that China, who did not join U.S.-sponsored PSI, Proliferation Security Initiative, accepted the U.S. requests.

Banning the use of its airspace naturally upset N. Korea, even feeling China betrayed them.

This might have been a factor when N. Korea went ahead of missile launches despite China's strong warning.

To N. Korea, missile is the symbol of N. Korean military power, bargaining chip to use against U.S., and premier export product.

In 2001, N. Korea is estimated to have earned 560 million dollars from missile export. After PSI is imposed late 2003, its revenue from the export plummeted to 100~200 million dollars annually, and missile export has been no longer done by sea, but by air.

After Chinese ban, (N. Korean) missile export route is almost completely blocked. Currently, about 1,000 missiles are sitting at a warehouse, and the missile inventory is turning into a headache, according to what we have learned.

N. Korea's disappointment at China is rising, and the relation between two countries is expected to move away from the old arrangement.

Shin Kyung-min reporting for MBC News.