1. The Japanese TV crew got in close during interrogation of the foreign crew of this aircraft. The Japanese zeroed in, using telephoto lenses, on the Thai police confession sheets that the men were apparantly been given to sign (that they were trafifficking in weapons).
2. The crew zoomed in on the attached BILL OF LADING issued for the cargo in question.
3. The BILL OF LADING was issued by AIR KORYO the national flag carrier for North Korea (and used in the past for espionage and smuggling).
4. The crews then went over to the Air Koryo sales office in Bangkok and burst into the door, confronting a North Korean local employee, showing him video of what they had taken. He got nervous, angry, showed them the door and only said "this must be a fake document. That is not ours".
5. Meanwhile, the crew said they were heading for Ukraine with the massive cargo of weaponry. However, the Japanese TV crew was at it again, they got a close look at the Bill of Lading with the destination, filmed it, and reaired it. It was clearly handrwitten in English on the sheet "MEHRABAD AIRPORT" (Teheran),فرودگاه مهرآباد (IATA Code: THR) is an airport that serves Teheran, Iran. This airport is close to the city center of Teheran and is not used widely for commercial international arrivals and departures, and is also shared by the Iranian military.
6. Japanese crews called Iran in Farsi and grilled personnel of Mehrabad Airport but they also denied that such an aircraft was heading or scheduled to head to their airport, and seemed perturbed by the call.
Summary of cargo at this time:
Multiple rocket launchers - two mobile units - and two dozen 240 mm unguided rockets. The total value of weapons found in 145 large boxes that weigh nearly 40 tons all up was estimated at around Baht 600 million.No nuclear munitions or weapons of mass destruction were found on board.
Can you guys imagine CNN, MSNBC, FOX, et al. going to this length to get the truth of this critical story? (IMHO they have neither the will, nor the infrastructure and capabilities).
Maybe the US does not like the unfortunate timing of this international crime in Thailand and does not want to cover so largely due to State Dept's Bosworth's recently finished appeasement message to Pyongyang and Senator Obama's recent surrender letter to Kim Jong il (another Presidential kowtow).
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Our media won’t even consider doing real journalism anymore.
God Bless those enterprising, digging Japanese journalists and their film crews.
A hot one in North Korean black weapons smuggling case was captured for all of Japan to see last night at the 11 p.m. TV news on NNN Network.
The pushy and curious Japanese journalists and cameramen with their long lenses (and fluent Farsi and Korean speaking investing staff in Tokyo), discovered some VERY interesting things about the North Korean aircraft stopped this week in Thailand with Ukranian crew flying weapons in violation of US sanctions. The flight crew has been very tight lipped, but the Japanese journalists nevertheless caught some things that were most interesting...
Summary of cargo at this time:
Multiple rocket launchers - two mobile units - and two dozen 240 mm unguided rockets. The total value of weapons found in 145 large boxes that weigh nearly 40 tons all up was estimated at around Baht 600 million.No nuclear munitions or weapons of mass destruction were found on board.
Well all it apparently needs now is a “trigger” design to complete a device...
All of this stuff on the plane is plain ole gravy...
Kudos to AmericaninTokyo, Japanese Journalists and the Thailand authorities!
A FReeper in Tokyo, hard hitting journalists and authorities that won’t swallow the political correctness pill.
American MSM, SRM - are you taking notes? Don’t ya think you should earn your excessive salaries with aggressive fact-finding? oh, sorry, didn’t mean to interrupt your “I’m a journalist” persona.
It’s way past time your employers expected top-quality work for the big bucks you’re paid. What? They can’t afford top quality work? Whodathunk?
We used to have a term for that here in the States. “Investigative journalism.” It’s a term I haven’t seen used in many years. We haven’t had anyone to apply it to.
Thank you for the ping American in Tokyo.
You did a great job putting this thread together.
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Thx AIT, good to know that there are a few journalist that still do real investigation. I bet the Japanese Journalist even know how to use google search, a skill that our Deadhead Journalist have not mastered.
Great post bump.
I wonder why I keep getting the impression that Japan has the best intel, the best HUMINT, the better political views against Islam and its global plan of domination.
Its like Japan will dominate Asia buy the fact it will have a better doctrine unlike China which is all about cheap labor and cloning other countries technology.
Methinks also that Japan may get its own version of Pearl Harbor from the NORKS, seriously I do believe North Korea will do something like a sub with a nuke near Tokyo.
Thanks for the great post and BTTT.
Great post..... we are indebted for your efforts
Thank you, AIT, for posting this. Why is it that reporters in the US who still do these kind of in-your-face investigations tend to do so for outfits like the Enquirer or TMZ? The press should be as fearless as it is free.
good news on the capture, thanks for posting
It was clearly handrwitten in English on the sheet "MEHRABAD AIRPORT" (Teheran),فرودگاه مهرآباد (IATA Code: THR) is an airport that serves Teheran, Iran.
This airport is close to the city center of Teheran and is not used widely for commercial international arrivals and departures, and is also shared by the Iranian military.
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Thanks for catching this - and posting it.
However, the Japanese TV crew was at it again, they got a close look at the Bill of Lading with the destination, filmed it, and reaired it. It was clearly handrwitten in English on the sheet "MEHRABAD AIRPORT" (Teheran),فرودگاه مهرآباد (IATA Code: THR) is an airport that serves Teheran, Iran.
This airport is close to the city center of Teheran and is not used widely for commercial international arrivals and departures, and is also shared by the Iranian military.
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What a weak cover story. Why would the Ukraine be wanting to buy North Korean Weapons? I’m sure the Chinese would sell them anything the Russians would not. So would others. Or for this kind of stuff, they probably make their own.