North Korean Weapon Shipment Seized By Emirates
Interceptor Shield Report
Nathan J Hunt
August 28, 2009
August 28, 2009, Breaking News: It is emerging today that the United Arab Emirates seized an arms shipment two weeks ago on August the 14th, 2009 and now being publicly confirmed by the UAE “United Arab Emirates” the shipment of armaments containing explosives detonators, Rockets launchers and RPG “Rocket Propelled Grenades” but no word yet on if the shipment contained any large scale missile or missile system parts destined for Iran’s ballistic missile program. The cargo of arms had been falsely labeled as oil drilling equipment bound for Iran. The shipment of armaments was headed for Iran before the ship was seized by the United Arab Emirates. Before the announcement was made today of the seized arms shipment both Iran and North Korea were given fifteen days to respond with a response to the illegal shipment.
Currently all weapon shipments to and from North Korea are banned by United Nation Security Council resolution 1874 that were put into effect following North Korea’s first Nuclear test, today’s announcement by the UEA of the seizure is the first attempted clear violation of the arms embargo to limited the North’s cash flow from weapon sales by the North Korean Government.
