North Korean Husband and Wife Targeted with Treasury Department Sanctions
|I wonder if these sanctions will actually do anything or are they just for show because wouldn’t China have to enforce them?:
The U.S. on Thursday imposed sanctions on a North Korean husband and wife living in Beijing accused of helping to procure equipment for ballistic missiles that ended up in the hands of North Korean and Iranian customers.
Treasury’s Office of Foreign Assets Control said Choe Chol Min and his wife Choe Un Jong work through North Korea’s Second Academy of Natural Sciences, a state organization that conducts research for the nation’s ballistics missiles program, to help procure equipment for buyers.
Treasury says Choe Chol Min worked with North Korean weapons trading officials to buy equipment for Iranian customers. His wife is accused of coordinating at least one order for dual-use bearings that are used in North Korean ballistic missile production.
The isolated Asian nation uses a network of representatives in foreign countries, including China and Iran, to illegally import restricted materials used to create ballistic missiles and other weapons in violation of U.N. Security Council resolutions, Treasury said.
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They must not have supplied 10 percent for the big guy.
“Where’s the money? I’m joking, it’s a bunch of malarkey.” says the “Big Guy”
I see a business opportunity here.
North Korea would probably pay 1.5x over the going price of missiles parts just to get them.
I could buy low and sell high! There is money in that.
They would probably pay double if you let them pay in meth and human kidneys.
Man, why isn’t everybody doing this?