DPRK "test" to be welcomed...

To the nervous, the underground explosion in NE North Korea, stop worrying. The desperate gamble by the madman dictator and his crazy scientists is, on balance a GOOD thing. (Pic Sean Garland "Official IRA leader" - not a GOOD thing, wanted in the US for distributing counterfeit DPRK manufactured US currency)

1. There are 2 types of rudimentary bomb that they might be able to re-create, the Uranium bomb - the only one ever used was at Hiroshima and the ability to produce the required type of Uranium is way beyond their technology and energy sources.

The lower cost Plutonium bomb and more easily acheivable in terms of substrate demands precise engineering and control systems, it would of course destroy or make unuseable and irrecoverable the plutonium they used.... lowering or even eliminating a future threat.

2. The amount of Plutonium they have been able to make is unknown, but best estimates are between 5 and 10 Kg. - they have displayed possibly 500 grams to US diplomats.

3. There is evidence that the explosion was actually produced by the use of massive amounts of chemical explosives, meaning that they have not been able to produce even a rudimentary bomb mechanism.

4. There is no evidence whatever they have the ability to produce a small device which could be air launched by missiles or aircraft.

5. The BAD NEWS news is (despite the "test") that they have enough nasty radioactive materials to make a very unpleasant "dirty" bomb - which is why the US are naturally (and sensibly) calling for marine inspection of North Korean cargoes.... which stems from the criminal nature of the regime.

For a useful background to the need for this, go here The North Korean Criminal State, its Ties to Organized Crime, and the Possibility of WMD Proliferation by David L. Asher published as their Policy Forum Online 05-92A: November 15th, 2005 disclaiming that his views represent those of the US State Department which he left in July 2005 or the view of the US government, or the Department of Defense. He starts ...

he rise of the criminal state in North Korea is no secret. It has occurred in full view of foreign governments and with increasing visibility to the world media.

...and finishes...

North Korea is the only government in the world today that can be identified as being actively involved in directing crime as a central part of its national economic strategy and foreign policy. As a result, Pyongyang is radically - and perhaps even hopelessly - out of synch with international law and international norms. In essence, North Korea has become a "soprano state" - a government guided by a Worker's Party leadership whose actions, attitudes, and affiliations increasingly resemble those of an organized crime family more than a normal nation.

Asher states, that the DPRK government is involved in a wide range of illicit businesses in partnership with organized crime groups or unilaterally... including :

1. Production and overseas distribution of narcotics, in particular heroin and methamphetamines:

Seizures of DPRK Meth (1,500 Kg) - of a distinctive high quality represented 35% of all such seizures in Japan with a wholesale value of over US$75 million and a street value of as much as $300 million.

The DPRK established an Embassy in Canberra, shortly after the 4,000 tonne Pong Su ( a "Workers Party" vessel with a KWP secretary on board and flying the Flag of Convenience of Tuvalu) was boarded by Australian Special Forces and 125 kg of Heroin worth $150 million seized.

23 crew members were deported and on March 2nd 2006 4 ships officers were found not guilty by the Australian Supreme Court.

On 23 March 2006, in a joint RAAF and RAN operation, the Pong Su was sunk by two 2000-pound laser-guided bombs dropped from RAAF F-111 aircraft.

At the time William Bach of the State Department's Bureau for International Narcotics and Law Enforcement Affairs told a Senate Governmental Affairs subcommittee that there have been at least 50 arrests or drug seizures involving North Koreans in more than 20 countries.

The Police said that the heroin was of the high-quality Double UOGlobe brand most likely produced in Myanmar, because the Korean made product is too low a quality for the market.(Wapo story here)
http://opioids.com/korea/

2. Production and international distribution of counterfeit currency, especially US currency, as well as cigarettes and pharmaceuticals.

Under International Law, counterfeiting another nation's currency is an act of causus belli, an act of economic war.

The United States Secret Service has designated certain counterfeit US currency as "C-14342" and they came to be known as "Supernote" or "Superdollar" , first discovered in the Philippines in 1989. Their origin was a printing plant in Pyeongseong, one of the cities in the province Pyeongahnnamdo in North Korea. They were cited in evidence of |Sean Garland and others of the Official IRA for their partnership in the criminal distribution of counterfeit US currency. (BBC report June 20th 2004 and Panorama programme same day)

On April 1st 2006, Sean Garland was unanimously re-elected as President of The Workers' Party (previously the Sinn Fein Workers party) and in a keynote address to the party membership gathered in Dublin he vowed to fight any attempt to extradite him to the United States.

3. Smuggling sanctioned items, including conflict diamonds, rhino horn and ivory, and endangered species, utilizing official diplomatic means - at least six North Korean diplomats have been forced to leave Africa after attempts to smuggle elephant tusks and rhinoceros horns.

4. Money laundering for its own account and in partnership with recognized organized crime groups abroad including the Macau based Banco Delta Asia which was designated under Section 311 of the USA Patriot Act.

5. Weapons smuggling and trading in WMD - 1,000's of shipping containers leave the DPRK every year from Najin on the east coast and Nampo on the west coast. They enter the international maritime transport system, through friendly ports, typically in China, the ROK, and Japan.

The North Korean vessel Sosang, which was interdicted shipping missiles (under a commercial cargo of cement) to Yemen in December 2002 .

The US President recently announced a new policy on Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA). Maritime Domain Awareness (MDA) has been defined as the effective knowledge of all activities associated with the global maritime environment that could impact the security, safety, economy, or environment of the United States.

The purpose of MDA is to generate actionable intelligence. Without actionable intelligence, counterterrorist or maritime law enforcement operations are largely pointless.

It is for these reasons that the DPRK regime should be removed - as well as their continued and continuing starvation of their population.

However the State sponsored (and very well run) Fear Factories are happier to have screaming headlines about missiles, nuclear bombs and other such nonsense.It keeps their populations alert and obedient, ven if it does nothing to remove the problem.

The US, have of course displayed their impotence in invading Iraq, against much advice, and with the acquiesence of our Dear Leader - and China, has no desire to bring the madman down with it's attendant chaos and the threat of millions of refugees streaming across the Yalu river.

So nothing will happen - unless a different criminal gang decide to depose Kim, but then you just have just another gang of Sopranos running the country , just like Italy.... or the US.

OH! the picture .... that's Sean Garland, ex-Marxist, who the UK won't extradite to the US, the man the Irish Gubment don't want to arrest and everybody seems to want to leave in peace running his criminal gang in Dublin. and the man who pops in and out of the Moscow DPRK Embassy like the man with the umbrella on the weather clock.

The Northern Ireland Office website head their report on organised crime ..

"

The criminal gangs who operate in Northern Ireland are involved in a range of crime areas in order to maximise their own gain.

Organised crime in Northern Ireland differs from the rest of the UK because of its history of paramilitary involvement and the land border with the Republic of Ireland. Many have links with criminals in other countries, highlighting the global nature of organised crime."