Posted on 04/26/2003 12:46:25 PM PDT by putupon
SEPTEMBER 2003 late : (GERMANY : FORMER IAEA DIPLOMAT FROM NORTH KOREA IS ACCUSED OF ORDERING SPECIALIZED ALUMINUM TUBING ON BEHALF OF NORTH KOREA) HAMBURG, Germany (AFP) - A former North Korean diplomat is accused of ordering material from a German firm that could be used in the production of nuclear weapons, Germany's Der Spiegel reported in its Monday edition. The news magazine said a German businessman would go on trial in Stuttgart, southwest Germany, next month in connection with the case. The diplomat was named by Spiegel as Yun Ho Jin. It said he used to work as a Pyongyang representative to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) in Vienna.
According to Der Spiegel, Yun Ho Jin ordered special aluminium tubes from the businessman which, experts say, are used to build gas ultracentrifuges in which uranium is enriched.
The equipment was impounded in April after being loaded on board a ship.
The unidentified businessman, who got to know the diplomat in the late 1980s, is accused of breaching trade export laws and "attempts to encourage production of a nuclear weapon."
Experts from the IAEA, the German foreign ministry and the German foreign intelligence service are expected to testify, the magazine added. - "North Korean diplomat implicated in nuclear plot: German press," Agence France-Presse , September 21, 2003
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Question: Iraq took delivery of some large quantities of those aluminum tubes Powell accused them of ordering 'for the purposes of making centrifuges for uranium enrichment,' right? Now we've been in Iraq for a while now, has anyone found all those missiles *another* IAEA diplomat el-Baradei said Iraq was making with those aluminum tubes? Or any aluminum tubes, for that matter? If not, why not? did they have a garage sale? Returned merchandise?
Why should they be ashamed? They get the summer off and eat well. Sounds like the NEA.
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