Maybe Lenin was right — perhaps we really will sell the North Koreans the rope with which they’ll hang us:
The government has increased monitoring to prevent raw materials and components for weapons from flowing into North Korea.
The measures have been taken as part of South Korean exports of sodium cyanide, a toxic chemical used to make a chemical weapon like sarine nerve gas, to China were reshipped to North Korea last year.
An official from the Ministry of Commerce, Industry and Energy (MOCIE) confirmed Friday that a local company exported a total of 107 tons of sodium cyanide to a Chinese company in Dandong between June and September in 2003 without the government?????s permission. The Chinese company then shipped those toxic chemicals to North Korea.
MOCIE official Seo Young-joo said the government uncovered the fact last September and took the local trading company, which violated the nation’s trade law, to court in October.
The head of the company was sentenced to one and a half years in prison and a two-year probation.
Interestingly enough, the KT’s headline was “NK’s Chemical Imports Raise Alarm.” Personally, given how this wasn’t the first incident of sodium cyanide exports from South Korea going places they perhaps shouldn’t, I would have found “SK’s Chemical Exports Raise Alarm” somewhat more appropriate.
UPDATE: Conrad of the Gweilo Diaries has his own thoughts on this.
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