Egypt BUSTED Trying to Buy Weapons From North Korea Last August

[Lewdog]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

 

[Ringel05]

And the beat goes on.........

 

[Lewdog]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

 

[Marion Morrison]

And-?

I remember Egypt told Obama GFY. I like that.

The UN should be swinging from trees.

 

[Ringel05]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

Good luck on getting anything like that past the US, China and Russia.

 

[Lewdog]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

Good luck on getting anything like that past the US, China and Russia.

That's why I am asking what should be done. It's obvious that sanctions against countries like North Korea are really not effective.

 

[Bleipriester]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

Egypt is a sovereign nation and can buy arms from whomever it wants.

 

[Lewdog]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

Egypt is a sovereign nation and can buy arms from whomever it wants.

They are a member of the UN who have placed sanctions against North Korea.

 

[Ringel05]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

Good luck on getting anything like that past the US, China and Russia.

That's why I am asking what should be done. It's obvious that sanctions against countries like North Korea are really not effective.

Other than electing Ming the Merciless as Emperor of Earth and letting him deal with it in his own homicidal manner I haven't a clue.

 

[Lewdog]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

Good luck on getting anything like that past the US, China and Russia.

That's why I am asking what should be done. It's obvious that sanctions against countries like North Korea are really not effective.

Other than electing Ming the Merciless as Emperor of Earth and letting him deal with it in his own homicidal manner I haven't a clue.

Sam Jones is still alive...

 

[Ringel05]

And the beat goes on.........

Sadly, it really does seem like sanctions don't work. But what can you do?

Should the UN have special rules of punishment for countries that willfully violate the rules by doing trade with North Korea? What kind of punishment?

Good luck on getting anything like that past the US, China and Russia.

That's why I am asking what should be done. It's obvious that sanctions against countries like North Korea are really not effective.

Other than electing Ming the Merciless as Emperor of Earth and letting him deal with it in his own homicidal manner I haven't a clue.

Sam Jones is still alive...

Yeah but he's an old fart now.

 

[Bleipriester]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

Egypt is a sovereign nation and can buy arms from whomever it wants.

They are a member of the UN who have placed sanctions against North Korea.

The sanctions are baseless. Other countries do the same and nobody pays any attention.

 

[Lewdog]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

Egypt is a sovereign nation and can buy arms from whomever it wants.

They are a member of the UN who have placed sanctions against North Korea.

The sanctions are baseless. Other countries do the same and nobody pays any attention.

They are base less? I guess that is easy to say when the leader of the country isn't threatening to fire nuclear ICBMs at the country you live in.

 

[Bleipriester]

The Washington Post has learned that a ship that was seized last August flying a Cambodian flag, was actually from North Korea, and it was carrying a hidden stash of 30,000 rocket propelled grenade launchers. More surprising however, was that the shipment seized by the Egyptians, was FOR the Egyptians. They only seized the ship because the United States had uncovered through intelligence operations what was onboard. This type of thing is why it is so hard to put sanctions on North Korea, because so many countries secretly attempt to cheat the system.


"Last August, a secret message was passed from Washington to Cairo warning about a mysterious vessel steaming toward the Suez Canal. The bulk freighter named Jie Shun was flying Cambodian colors but had sailed from North Korea, the warning said, with a North Korean crew and an unknown cargo shrouded by heavy tarps.

Armed with this tip, customs agents were waiting when the ship entered Egyptian waters. They swarmed the vessel and discovered, concealed under bins of iron ore, a cache of more than 30,000 rocket-propelled grenades. It was, as a United Nations report later concluded, the "largest seizure of ammunition in the history of sanctions against the Democratic People's Republic of Korea."

But who were the rockets for? The Jie Shun's final secret would take months to resolve and would yield perhaps the biggest surprise of all: The buyers were the Egyptians themselves."

A North Korean ship was seized off Egypt with a huge cache of weapons destined for a surprising buyer

Egypt is a sovereign nation and can buy arms from whomever it wants.

They are a member of the UN who have placed sanctions against North Korea.

The sanctions are baseless. Other countries do the same and nobody pays any attention.

They are base less? I guess that is easy to say when the leader of the country isn't threatening to fire nuclear ICBMs at the country you live in.

He doesn´t. If such "threats" lead to sanctions, why is your´s not sanctioned, then?