N Korean scientists defect ("Operation Weasel!")

The Weekend Australian ^ | April 19, 2003 | Martin Chulov and Cameron Stewart

[Joy Angela]

Thanks for the pings!

[ALOHA RONNIE]

The BUSH Doctrine =

..'Bringing DEMOCRACY & FREEDOM to the Common Man & Woman everywhere...

is Everyone's Answer'..

............WORKS.............

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Captured to the Free Republic DB here:

Nuclear scientists 'defect' as North Korea defies America

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

RIGHT ON!!!

[evad]

Nuclear scientists 'defect' as North Korea defies America The Times (UK) ^ | April 19, 2003 | Elaine Monaghan in Washington
Posted on 04/18/2003 8:05 PM EDT by Ernest_at_the_Beach

Glad to see it sourced by the UK Times

I feel better about it now.

[michigander]

You're making a valiant effort but, the tabloid tide's against you tonight.
Didn't you see? A murder suspect was asrrested.

[TheMole]

I did the same (googled the subject, that is) and came up with the Australian links. This is the #1 reason I read FR -- the bias, laziness and general incompetence of our news media make reading most newspapers or watching television news a waste of time. This won't even appear for days, if it ever does, and then its significance will be denied. How much the Bush Administration had to do with this is hard to know, but hey, these NoKo nuke geeks are now in the USA - not China, Japan, or France.

As some of the other posters noted, North Korea may have been a Chinese project in the 1950s, but it plays no useful role whatsoever for the Chinese today. You may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago the Chinese turned off North Korea's oil pipeline for a few days for "technical reasons".

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

LOL!

I found a map :

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Two other papers have picked up the report now!

[U S Army EOD]

There are a lot of ethnic Koreans on the "Chinese" side of the border and they DO NOT LIKE the Chinese government because the Chinese army has been sending starving Korean refuges back to North Korea where they are put in prison.

[kayak]

FYI

[Miss Marple]

Thanks, kayak!

How very interesting!

[Henchman]

"This is a matter of sufficient concern that the government of the United States would likely recommend removing Nauru from the (Financial Action Task Force) list of non-co-operative countries." "This was a reference to financial sanctions the multi-national body had threatened to impose on Nauru." NAURU is a "tax haven" in the Pacific. The residents made most of their money from BAT GUANO and then Money Laundering. The residents are bored so they drive their expensive cars up and down the 7 mile Island. This deal wasn't "cheap", it will cost the taxpayers millions in hidden money and what makes anyone think thet din't launder Red Chinese of N.Korean money...hmmm...why else would they be involved? ...we know what their pay off was.

[EastCoast]

Wonder what ms. hitlary has to say about this! Wasn't she "concerned" about NK? And, of course, her dear hubby. Maybe he can get a little golf twosome going with Kim Jong Il to discuss how to handle the "moronic cowboy."

[PhilDragoo]

Wasn't this solved by the 1994 Agreed Framework?

Will Kim Chia act out now that traitorrapist42 revealed Bush's plan to attack NK?

[ex-Texan]

The timing of this article is especially apt. Good find !

[Grampa Dave]

Besides knowing every card Yo Kim Chia Head, the Short Donged, holds. If we have some of his key nuclear scientists, we know if the cards have any value or just worthless POS used as prop spin.

Thanks for your reply. If you find anything else that documents this, please ping me. I will do the same.

[Grampa Dave]

The ambiguous North Korean announcement came as a report in The Australian disclosed that up to 20 of North Korea's military and scientific elite, among them key nuclear specialists, had defected to the US and its allies through a smuggling operation involving the tiny Pacific island nation of Nauru. An American source confirmed to The Times last night that discussions with Nauru about helping North Korean defectors had taken place.

The defections started last October and were made possible with the help of 11 countries that agreed to provide consular protection to smuggle the targets from neighbouring China. Among those believed to be in a safe house in the West is the father of North Korea's nuclear programme, Kyong Won-ha. Debriefings of Mr Kyong are said to have given intelligence officials an unprecedented insight into North Korea's nuclear capabilities, particularly at the Reactor No 1 in the city of Yongbyon.

As the Honorable Billybob has pointed out, GW knew every card the Chia Head probably before they were dealt.

What I find to be disturbing is how the left wing, the Islamofacists and of course the so called right wing whackos ran with the NK Nuke Story together out of the starting gate. It was obvious that they wanted us to forget about Regime Change in Iraq and to focus on N Korea.

It is like this Troika of lies and miss information spreaders has the same think tanks and work together. The most recent example would be the cries of so called outrage about the so called looting of the Baghdad Museum.

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks Ernest, now we will have a data base to counter the mentally ill whackos who start saying, "Bush, screwed us and the world by going after Soddomite and Regime change in Iraq instead of N Korea!"

[Grampa Dave]

Thanks, I was not aware of this important piece of data,

You may have noticed that a couple of weeks ago the Chinese turned off North Korea's oil pipeline for a few days for "technical reasons".