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Syria’s Assad still acquiring chemical weapons !! 2 North Korean shipments intercepted by UN

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kim-jong-un , bashar-assad-syriaTwo North Korean shipments to a Syrian government agency responsible for the country’s chemical weapons program were intercepted in the past six months, according to a confidential United Nations report on North Korea sanctions violations.

The report by a panel of independent U.N. experts, which was submitted to the U.N. Security Council earlier this month and seen by Reuters on Monday, gave no details on when or where the interdictions occurred or what the shipments contained.

“The panel is investigating reported prohibited chemical, ballistic missile and conventional arms cooperation between Syria and the DPRK (North Korea),” the experts wrote in the 37-page report.

“Two member states interdicted shipments destined for Syria. Another Member state informed the panel that it had reasons to believe that the goods were part of a KOMID contract with Syria,” according to the report.

 KOMID is the Korea Mining Development Trading Corporation. It was blacklisted by the Security Council in 2009 and described as Pyongyang’s key arms dealer and exporter of equipment related to ballistic missiles and conventional weapons. In March 2016 the council also blacklisted two KOMID representatives in Syria.

“The consignees were Syrian entities designated by the European Union and the United States as front companies for Syria’s Scientific Studies and Research Centre (SSRC), a Syrian entity identified by the Panel as cooperating with KOMID in previous prohibited item transfers,” the U.N. experts wrote.

SSRC has overseen the country’s chemical weapons program since the 1970s.

The U.N. experts said activities between Syria and North Korea they were investigating included cooperation on Syrian Scud missile programs and maintenance and repair of Syrian surface-to-air missiles air defense systems.

The North Korean and Syrian missions to the United Nations did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

The experts said they were also investigating the use of the VX nerve agent in Malaysia to kill the estranged half-brother of North Korea’s leader Kim Jong Un in February.

 North Korea has been under U.N. sanctions since 2006 over its ballistic missile and nuclear programs and the Security Council has ratcheted up the measures in response to five nuclear weapons tests and four long-range missile launches.

Syria agreed to destroy its chemical weapons in 2013 under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States. However, diplomats and weapons inspectors suspect Syria may have secretly maintained or developed a new chemical weapons capability.

During the country’s more than six-year long civil war the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons has said the banned nerve agent sarin has been used at least twice, while the use of chlorine as a weapon has been widespread. The Syrian government has repeatedly denied using chemical weapons.

REUTERS

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14 responses to “Syria’s Assad still acquiring chemical weapons !! 2 North Korean shipments intercepted by UN”

  1. Ilami-Gilaki Avatar
    Ilami-Gilaki

    Fake news.

    1. Arzna Avatar
      Arzna

      I have a strong feeling you were involved in the intercepted shipments

      1. Hind Abyad Avatar
        Hind Abyad

        You ave a heavy Zionist fascist admirer Arzna

        Discussion on spiked 131 comments
        This is what ‘American Nazism’ looks like

        Ruthie Riegler a day ago

        Hitler didn’t start in 1939, he started with a “ragbag bunch” – Trump’s only been in power for a few months. And if he’s impeached there’s Mr Kirche Kuche Kinder himself Mike Pence. And with everyone now whooping and cheering for the Putin-led glorious Global War on Turr Against the Musllamic Hordes – with Putin the global fascist and evangelical icon and pin-up of totalitarianism groupies everywhere – Pat Robertson and David Duke gets as much of a hard-on for him as Oliver Stone and Glenn Greenwald – this is just the start for the neo-nazis.

        And the nominal ‘left’ have been every bit as avid as the far-right in amplifying the fascist fanboy chorus, babbling about the “Zio-Wahhabi Takfiri Jihadis”, collectively demonising Sunni Muslims as terrorists (“in league with Da Jooz” no less) in support of Assad – the Pilger posse have been indispensably useful enablers for the Trump crew. But of course now that the “anti-fa” are having…….

  2. Hannibal Avatar
    Hannibal

    The North Koreans are related to Syrians like Trump is related to Russia. Fake news by zionazis.

    1. Omega Avatar
      Omega

      Precisely. It’s nonsense to divert the attention of the public from the (financial) tsunami that is about to hit them; very hard this time.

      On the topic of Trump and Russia …

      Lyndon LaRouche made the following comment: “The American people must demand that the ongoing treasonous British coup against the U.S. Presidency and the nation itself must be stopped, and the perpetrators prosecuted and imprisoned. The British system must be cancelled, and the President must make every effort to save the people of this country and the rest of humanity from further British-directed depredations against their lives. Cancel the British system; save the people.”

      What I’m going to do today is to present the documentation which shows that what we have here is not a Russian interference in the domestic affairs of the United States of America, but rather a very directed interference on the part of the British empire. This is what should be investigated, as opposed to so-called “collusion” between President Trump’s campaign team and the Russians. This is very important to document, and it’s absolutely critical that this coup be stopped; because we are, at this moment in world history, on the brink of another financial breakdown, far larger than in 2008. We are in a situation where the British, to preserve their bankrupt financial system based in the City of London and in Wall Street, are committed to bringing down the U.S. President to prevent the alternative to that collapse from being realized.

      The alternative to that collapse is what Lyndon LaRouche has called the Four Powers concept, an alliance among the United States, Russia, China, and potentially India, which represent the industrial power on this planet and the vast majority of the world’s population. That combination can solve virtually any problem with which we are faced on planet Earth and beyond. For instance, the Korean Peninsula crisis requires the collaboration of the United States with China, and Russia; both of which are neighbors of North and South Korea. The fight against terrorism in the Middle East and North Africa, which extends even beyond those areas, requires such collaboration. The rebuilding of the world economy requires such collaboration, particularly by the United States joining the efforts initiated by China—the so-called Silk Road or the “One Belt, One Road” initiative, which Lyndon and Helga LaRouche have fought for for decades, when it was referred to as the World Land-Bridge.

      All of these problems can be solved with that collaboration, and that collaboration would destroy the British empire once and for all. That is what is at stake right now. I would also point out that the British empire has historically been committed to massive population reduction, genocide, reducing the world’s population from the current level of more than seven billion, to one billion. That empire is willing to bring the world to the brink of thermonuclear war, with its geopolitical strategy against Russia and China. That is the underlying issue which is behind the current attempt to carry out a coup against the President of the United States.

      Also, if you’re wondering why Russia stepped in Syria …

      Yes. British policy is a policy of geopolitics, and this is a longstanding policy. In 1919, Halford Mackinder wrote a paper entitled “The Geographical Pivot of History.” What he wrote there, in summary, is as follows: Who rules East Europe commands the Heartland. Who rules the Heartland commands the World Island. Who rules the World Island commands the World. Russia is the pivot area, the heartland. Surrounding it is an area which is called the Inner Crescent, which today would be called the Arc of Crisis, as defined by another geopolitician, Bernard Lewis, who was born in Britain but later became an American citizen. That’s the policy that we’ve been carrying out. Who rules East Europe? Think about the move eastward by NATO to the very borders of Russia. Think about the policy of regime change in the entire Arc of Crisis area surrounding Russia.

      http://larouchepub.com/graphics/2017/4433-lpac_webcast-pic6-world_island-map-lg.jpg

      The British geopolitical view of the world as described by Halford Mackinder. This is the policy that was implemented under Zbigniew Brzezinski during the Carter Administration. It’s continuing today, with the regime change policies in Libya, and in Egypt, before it was reversed by el-Sisi against Morsi. We see it in Iraq beginning in 2003; we see it today in the attempt in Syria. Before that, we saw it in Afghanistan, and that’s still a crisis today. We see it in Ukraine, today. This is the geopolitical policy of the British, which led to World War II by the way, because this was the policy of Hitler. The Mackinder policy was picked up by Haushofer, who was instrumental in defining Hitler’s policy of marching East to Russia—the Soviet Union at that time. So this is the geopolitical policy which is operative today.

      http://mobile.schillerinstitute.org/site/strategic/2017/08/18-cancel-brit-system/cbs.html?imz_st

    2. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
      Rainbow Sponge

      https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/1720fda1917779dea679927a8e4a90efca98dcb25241e19ed8293d138de61228.jpg

      1. Hannibal Avatar
        Hannibal

        Back at you Corpus spongiosum… 😉

  3. PatienceTew Avatar
    PatienceTew

    The destruction of chemical weapons is complex and dangerous. Maybe it would be easiest to just release them in North Korea where they originated!??

    1. Hind Abyad Avatar
      Hind Abyad

      Who cares bout fake news .. Jewish settlers attack the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
      http://al-bushra.org/jewish-settlers-attack-the-church-of-the-holy-sepulcher/

      Israeli court hands Jewish settlers property of Greek Orthodox Patriarchate in Jerusalem
      http://www.keeptalkinggreece.com/2017/08/08/israel-settlers-property-greek-orthodox-patriarchate/

      1. PatienceTew Avatar
        PatienceTew

        If the Jews want people to keep their hands off the Jewish religion maybe it’s time for the Jews to start keeping their hands of other people’s religions?

        1. Rudy1947 Avatar
          Rudy1947

          Less than 1% of the world is that much of a threat? That’s extraordinary.

          1. PatienceTew Avatar
            PatienceTew

            Somewhat like mosquitoes … an annoyance.

  4. Hind Abyad Avatar
    Hind Abyad

    Christians in Bethlehem protest Israeli land appropriation
    https://www.middleeastmonitor.com/20170822-christians-in-bethlehem-protest-israeli-land-appropriation/

    1. Rainbow Sponge Avatar
      Rainbow Sponge

      https://twitter.com/geopolitiquee/status/900791482000519168

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