Another care package to jihadists from Dear Leader. Unsurprisingly, "35 tonnes of weapons, including rockets and rocket-propelled grenades" seem to have a way of smoothing over the general, blazing shirk of the "Juche" ideology.
"North Korea arms plane 'bound for Hezbollah'," by James Hider for the Times Online, May 13:
An aircraft full of weapons seized in Bangkok last year was heading from North Korea to Hezbollah, the Lebanese militia, and Hamas, the Palestinian group, Avigdor Lieberman, the Israeli Foreign Minister, said yesterday.
The Thai authorities said that the aircraft was carrying 35 tonnes of weapons, including rockets and rocket-propelled grenades. The Thai Government informed the UN that the haul had been bound for Iran, which is believed to ship weapons to its ally Syria, which distributes them to Hezbollah or Hamas.
North Korea had the "intention to smuggle these weapons to Hamas and to Hezbollah", Mr Lieberman said in Japan, where he was on an official visit. "This co-operation between North Korea and Syria [does not] improve the economic situation in their countries," he added.
Tensions on Israel's northern border with Lebanon increased after Israel said that Syria had transferred new Scud missiles to Hezbollah, which has an estimated 42,000 rockets pointed at the Jewish state, with whom it fought a bitter summer war in 2006. The new rockets are believed capable of accurately hitting any target inside Israel, although Israel has developed its own missile system capable of bringing down incoming projectiles.
Israel's intelligence agency Mossad has focused much of its attention on preventing weapons from Iran and Syria reaching their proxies on Israel's borders, launching a long-range airstrike on a weapons convoy in Sudan in early 2009, and blowing up what was thought to be a nuclear facility under construction in Syria in 2007. That facility was believed to have been based on North Korean technology....
North Korea is THE most vicious and brutal regime on the face of the earth. Hardly surprising these kuffar are in bed with Islamic Jihad. If true evil is present on this earth, it lives in Pyongyang.
I wonder what the specifics of that weapons cargo was. "Rockets" is a highly ambiguous. Logically I would get the best weapons Saudi petro dollars can buy. Such as:
SA-16/18 anti aircraft IR heat seeker:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/9K38_Igla
AT-5 Spandrel anti tank weapons (IDF confirms use of this weapon by Hizballah in 2006):
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AT-5_Spandrel
"The new rockets are believed capable of accurately hitting any target inside Israel, although Israel has developed its own missile system capable of bringing down incoming projectiles."
That highly impressive piece of technology is called the Arrow II missile and Green Pine tracking system. It is capable of tracking a very large number of targets and uses intelligent discrimination. It can pick off SCUDS from a volley of Katyusha's and has a 90% probability of destroying an incoming supersonic threat between very low level and extraatmospheric altitudes. Arrow II can fly hypersonically at Mach 9.
http://www.army-technology.com/projects/arrow2/
Does NK love Islam? Hate Israel? Or is this just evil based business? I wonder how many Mahoundians live in NK?
Way to early to retire that "Axis of Evil" moniker, right?
No surprise here. Evil attempting to aid evil.
NK is an autocracy under the guise of being a communist republic. the ruler uses buddhisim as a base for the worship and idolization of himself and his late father. He is their god and every source of happiness.
This evil regime will sell any weapons to anyone for money. They demand and receive international aid for their people, while much of their GNP goes into the militery including nukes development. This also could be pakistan and a few other countries. This evil regime is a sometimes partner and friend of the Chinese. The Chinese in turn have received significient help in modernizing their manufacturing and technical knowhow from guess who? please make a guess.
Guess old George W. had it right on that "Axis of Evil" thing...
The interesting thing about this story is not just the report itself but the name of the reporter, James Hider. I thought I had heard his name before, and I was right.
Here, from 2009, is another report by James Hider that was discussed at jihadwatch.
http://www.jihadwatch.org/2009/01/gaza-rockets-put-israels-nuclear-plant-in-battle-zone.html
If you scroll down through the comments thread, you will see a comment by me that analyses the tone of that particular report by Hider.
Then you will see *this* comment by Hugh Fitzgerald, who seemingly had been (and maybe still is) keeping tabs on Mr Hider:
Hugh | January 2, 2009 9:57 AM
"I have read James Hider (Haidar) in other newspapers; he's a flat-out antisemitic propagandist. There is no other way to describe him. If I can unearth a piece or two by him -- I may not have kept them -- I'll put up something more revealing here."
Reason #10,387 why North Korea needs to be completely and utterly destroyed.
Of course, nobody should be surprised that Iran is supplying these groups via Syria. How about diverting a few of our drones from Iraq and Pakistan to the Syrian border?
Tanstaafl wrote:
Way to early to retire that "Axis of Evil" moniker, right?
George wrote:
Guess old George W. had it right on that "Axis of Evil" thing...
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Yeah—ol' George W. Bush was widely castigated for such a 'stupid' formulation...turns out he wasn't off the mark after all...
Desidude, recent research into the origins of the North Korean state have uncovered that the late, unlamented Kim Ilsong's parents were Presbyterian Christians who moved to northeastern China to find opportunity and to get away from the Japanese. Hence, the Kim dynasty is a warning of what you get when people raised as Christians turn their back on God.
You've gotten this from a Presbyterian Christian who is not afraid to admit that his communion has spawned some bad eggs.
Further, I accept that people like Mao in China and Kim Ilsong were indeed Marxists. Granted, they filtered Marx and his doctrines through lenses shaped partially by the greater and lesser traditions of the Far East. Indeed, Mao Zedong saw himself as something of a modernized version of the Monkey King of old Chinese legend.
Maybe the deification of a ruler was more "natural" in a Far Eastern setting where the monarch was traditionally seen as the "Son of Heaven"; but a similar phenomenon can be seen in European ex-Christians turned Marxists idolizing Stalin or Dimitrov or Thaelmann. Yet, critical as I may be of Eastern Orthodoxy or Roman Catholicism, I will not blame the one for erstwhile Orthodox Russians making a false god of Stalin and erstwhile Catholic Cubans making a false god of Falso Castro.
Perhaps I chalk it all up to people who won't stand for Christ falling for anything.
But, to get closer to the topic at hand, this alliance between Pyongyang and the Hamas/Hizbollah/Iranian nexus suggests that Pyongyang seems Islamicist rage as an exploitable commodity. The Soviets masterfully used Islamic rage in the Middle East after 1956, and the US used the same in Afghanistan after 1980. I supposed that Kim Chong-il has now decided to try to ride the unguided missile of Islamic rage.
And, while we're on it, wasn't former Pres. Bush supposed to be a blithering idiot for seeing North Korea and Iran as part of an "Axis of Evil"?