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North Korea shipments to Syria chemical arms agency intercepted: U.N. report
Reuters ^ | AUGUST 22, 2017

Posted on 08/22/2017 3:05:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster

North Korea shipments to Syria chemical arms agency intercepted: U.N. report

UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) - Two North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country's chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions violations.

The report by a panel of independent U.N. experts, which was submitted to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Monday, gave no details on when or where the interdictions occurred or what the shipments contained.

"The panel is investigating reported prohibited chemical, ballistic missile and conventional arms cooperation between Syria and the DPRK (North Korea)," the experts wrote in the 37-page report.

"Two member states interdicted shipments destined for Syria. Another Member state informed the panel that it had reasons to believe that the goods were part of a KOMID contract with Syria," according to the report.

KOMID is the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation. It was blacklisted by the Security Council in 2009 and described as Pyongyang's key arms dealer and exporter of equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons. In March 2016 the council also blacklisted two KOMID representatives in Syria.

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TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; News/Current Events; Syria
KEYWORDS: chemicalweapons; nkchemicals; nkchemweapons; nkorea; nksyria; syria; syriawar

1 posted on 08/22/2017 3:05:46 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster
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To: TigerLikesRooster; AmericanInTokyo; Steel Wolf; nuconvert; MizSterious; endthematrix; ...

P!


2 posted on 08/22/2017 3:06:15 AM PDT by TigerLikesRooster (dead parakeet + lost fishing gear = freep all day)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

From the article:

The report by a panel of independent U.N. experts, which was submitted to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Monday, gave no details on when or where the interdictions occurred or what the shipments contained.

If it was confidential, but shown to reuters..

Is there a link to the 36 page report?
Which two countries interdicted shipments?
Names of the panel of independent experts?


3 posted on 08/22/2017 4:15:04 AM PDT by sockmonkey (Donald Trump will ban auto-correct with an Executive Order. Go Trump!)
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To: sockmonkey

It’s all TRUE!!!

We must immediately send 4,000,000,000,000,000 troops to Syria and take the whole thing over.

Because.


4 posted on 08/22/2017 4:42:57 AM PDT by dp0622 (The Left should know that if Trump is kicked out of office, it is WAR!)
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Have we ever been told that Korea has chemical weapons?


5 posted on 08/22/2017 4:57:09 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: Sacajaweau

Not only does Korea has chemical weapons, it has on of the largest stanch of biological weapons also.


6 posted on 08/22/2017 5:51:45 AM PDT by Robe (A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within.)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Have we ever been told that Korea has chemical weapons?”

Not that I recall. However, Wikipedia has a scary listing of the NORKS and chemical weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction


7 posted on 08/22/2017 5:54:46 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Racists, Nah!!)
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To: Sacajaweau

“Have we ever been told that Korea has chemical weapons?”

Not that I recall. However, Wikipedia has a scary listing of the NORKS and chemical weapons:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_Korea_and_weapons_of_mass_destruction


8 posted on 08/22/2017 5:54:56 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Voting for Trump to be our President, made 62+ million of us into Dumb Deplorable Racists, Nah!!)
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To: Grampa Dave

Sounds like the embargo could be forcing them to sell these horrible assets.


9 posted on 08/22/2017 7:09:53 AM PDT by Sacajaweau
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To: TigerLikesRooster

Can Syria import this without consent by RU and IR?


10 posted on 08/23/2017 9:09:03 AM PDT by AdmSmith (GCTGATATGTCTATGATTACTCAT)
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