Posted on 05/31/2011 6:59:42 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
Kim Jong-il 'Hoped for Arms Supply from China'
North Korean leader Kim Jong-il was accompanied by several officials in charge of arms manufacture and acquisition during his latest visit to China, giving rise to speculation that he was hoping for weapons supplies from his country's staunchest ally.
He was accompanied by Ju Kyu-chang, the first vice-director of the Ministry of Defense Industry, and Pak To-chun, a former senior secretary of Jagang Province, where the North's munitions facilities are clustered, and now Workers Party secretary for munitions. Both had been with him on previous China trips.
A source familiar with North Korean affairs said Kim may have been seeking China's help in modernizing the North's superannuated weapons.
During his Beijing visit in May last year, Kim was said to have asked Chinese President Hu Jintao for fighter jets, but his demand was rejected.
Fighter jets are the North's biggest deficiency compared to South Korea.
But due to international sanctions, there is little China can do even if it wants to help. The assistance it could give is in replacing the North's superannuated rifles and artillery, the source said.
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The little dweeb got his butt spanked in China!.....................
And... you were going to trade them what, exactly, Mr. Kim?
In exchange for his promise of good behavior from now on. What else? :-)
Way he throwing 5 year old temper tantum I don’t think China going give him that deal HELLO LOL!
They can trade China with foreign policy initiatives. Keeping the US, South Korea, and Japan off balance while China directs other matters.
Sounds imaginative; however, it also sounds a little over my head.
Anyway, one gets the feeling that nothing much is gonna work for the North Koreans...
You guys are all such big wishy washy wishful big thinkers... http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Korea/MF02Dg01.html aren’t you?
I mean we’ll never know fully what goes on behind closed doors between these two Commies so why knock your brains out?
The last word (somewhere from anti-war.com) is that he had his whole team of military hardware experts and specialists with him on this latest of visit. This can only mean of one thing:
a) it means he is free to select anything and everything his Kim Il heart desires and he’ll be treated exactly as the Pakistani were treated or
b) his experts will need to be deciding as to [which plants] (JF-17? J-10? JH-7? All three?) they will want to be putting up in North Korea to keep pumping the Chinese AC’s they wanted to keep his military going into the future ship shape...
Lips and teeth you know.
Nothing has worked in the North Korean republic since the Korean war.
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