You have to give New Jersey’s very own Juwhan Yun credit — most people would have quit the illegal arms dealing business after a conviction for trying to sell the Iranians sarin nerve gas bombs, but not him:
A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
Investigators also found thousands of e-mails allegedly sent by Juwhan Yun, a 68-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Short Hills, N.J., involving other deals for sophisticated radar and air defense systems, short-wave infrared cameras, laser-guided bomb components and missile launch devices.
Yun is quoted in one e-mail as boasting that he has been “the largest one-stop supplier” of sensitive military and similar equipment for South Korea for the past 30 years.
Now, the Korean embassy might not have returned AP’s call, but the Korean consulate in Atlanta did speak with Yonhap, telling the Korean news network that they only know of Yun’s arrest through foreign (i.e. AP) press accounts, and since said stories report that Yun is a US citizen, the consulate won’t be getting involved. They do plan to figure out what happened, though.
(HT to reader)
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Gotta love those multicultural/multiracial cesspools, oops, I mean “republics.” You know, where it’s all about how awesome and “vibrant” “diversity” is, and everyone gets along, and there’s none of those, you know, pesky things like divided loyalties. It’s great! and it’s only getting better all the time!
Methinks this is gonna get messy.
First!
Think it has anything to do with Robert Kim?
Short Hills of all places.
Yun, who is being held without bail, faces up to 60 years in prison and $6 million in fines if convicted of all six charges, which involve attempting to broker or export prohibited defense or missile-related items and failing to register with the U.S. government as a broker.
Whatever happened to the 2nd amendment right to bear arms?
Doesn’t say anything about carrying them across the border and selling them.
The guy is a US citzen, why would a Korean consulate even be mentioned in this story?
You know, many Koreans will not see this as a crime. Of course if the tables were turned we all know how Koreans would react.
Imagine the reaction if one of South Korea’s very few immigrants did something similiar.
I’m sure it will be said that he is a victim of God knows what and some Korean professor will say it’s perfectly ok to betray your country to help Korea. My guess is that it will be America’s fault as usual.
Selling arms to a country hostile to the US is not bearing arms.
At least I couldn’t find anything about that here, how about anyone else?
http://www.law.cornell.edu/constitution/constitution.billofrights.html
I hope they take him to the gallows because that’s what he deserves.
Is South Korea hostile to the US?
Isn’t the whole reason for mentioning the S. Korean consulate because he is charged for trying to sell it to “South Korea” rather than because he is a Korean American?
A lot of Koreans are not so sympathetic to Korean Americans, as you know from the hostile reaction to the army-dodgers who are also US citizens.. Seems now the consulate is also washing their hands off this guy, saying “he’s an American citizen and it’s not in their place to 나설 상황도 아닌것 같다.
I love how everything which gets posted from bullying & getting charged for school fisticuffs to people trying to sell arms always incite a whole lot of “if it were in Korea, it would be a whole lot worse and a whole lot more ridiculous” comments.
Curious, what is the punishment for treason in Korea?
Wow, how do you develop balls like this guy without being mentally handicapped? Quite amazing to me.
I think there’s a very good chance this guy has mental issues.
Well, I wonder to what extent this section is true:
In one email “boasting?” Ummm…not so sure about that.
# 1,
Obviously held up due to filtering because I thought I was first…
Oh, and in response to mkaplan and his “multicultural/multiracial cesspools,” kind of like this, huh?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kurt_Frederick_Ludwig
Sieg heil indeed Mr. mkaplan.
WangKon936,
What’s your point? Besides trying to look clever by linking to obscure figures in history in an attempt to discredit me. As if you pulled some fact that you believed was unknown to me out of your magic hat that’s supposed to neutralize me.
So, what are you saying? Besides something to the effect of, “See, look, white guys did this too!…It’s not just Koreans (and others) these days….white guys did this as well in the past!…So nothing to see here! Carry on…” Well, the US put Germans, Japanese, and Italians in internment camps in the US. I’m sure you don’t propose extending this analogy any further.
You can’t simply compare two drastically different periods in the US, point something out that’s somewhat related, and say everything is hunky dory. It’s naive at best and obscurantism at worst.
And my comment is not simply a reference to contemporary US. If anything it’s more about the future.
Wow… what a bitter gordian knott mkaplan is.
At least the good news is that he’s a declining and increasingly irrelevent demographic, thus, less important and ultimately, not worth my time.
I like the pose he assumes in the picture.
http://www.koreatimes.com/article/articleview.asp?id=520352
WangKon936,
You’re right. You win. I lose. I give up. I’m sorry.
I should’ve known to never argue against someone who is unwilling to descend from their position of moral superiority. After all morally superior people are just so, well, morally superior, how possibly could they be wrong? How could I be so stupid with my feeble mind and moral sense and try to argue against someone so morally superior, and expect a reasonable argument in response?
As a member of “a declining and increasingly irrelevant demographic” I bow down (kowtow?) to WangKon936 and our new overlords (whose only qualification seems to be that they themselves are not a part of this “declining and increasingly irrelevant demographic”).
I do want to ask:
What precisely are you referring to? What demographic, and how do you know?
“What precisely are you referring to?”
People who think that the United States is the exclusive property of those who are of Northern European descent.
It’s pretty obvious that they are a declining demographic… all huddled together at AmericanRenaissance.com (AmRen.com) exchanging their paranoid ideas that the unwashed non-white masses are destroying America.
“since said stories report that Yun is a US citizen, the consulate won’t be getting involved”
I’m sure they will when warrants are issued for South Koreans, especially if they are high ranking chaebol execs.
“People who think that the United States is the exclusive property of those who are of Northern European descent.”
I never said that I believe that “the US is the exclusive property of those who are of N. Euro descent.” My name should be enough indication that I am not of Northern Euro descent. This is another issue altogether, one of property, a question of who actually “owns” the US and influences immigration policy. Mass immigration and drastic demographic change has always been consistently resisted by the majority of Americans. And history shows that legislation and political representation reflected this majority for the most part.
The recent waves have also been resisted, but of course legislation and representation has either ignored or outright contravened the majority, for political and ideological reasons.
“It’s pretty obvious that they are a declining demographic… all huddled together at AmericanRenaissance.com (AmRen.com) exchanging their paranoid ideas that the unwashed non-white masses are destroying America.”
There’s a lot in this statement. First of all, there’s the tone of contempt and disdain for this “declining demographic.” WangKon characterizes this “declining demographic” as being a bunch of paranoid crazies that congregate at extreme sites. He intimates that anyone (esp. if they’re of this demographic) that is critical of current immigration trends and demographic changes (nonwhite or otherwise) for whatever reason, is paranoid and thus crazy and unreasonable. No need for reasonable discourse with this demographic then. Standard tactic by those who can’t or don’t wish to respond with reasoned arguments.
By his own standard then, Koreans who say anything at all critical of immigration into Korea (immigration w/ intent to settle, which currently consists primarily of foreign wives from other Asian countries for Korean husbands) are paranoid, crazy, unreasonable, dangerous, etc., on an order of several magnitudes more than this “demographic” is. After all, immigration into Korea (esp. considering the nature of immigration into Korea) is on an order of several magnitudes smaller (and qualitatively different) than into the US.
By WangKon’s standard, if there were millions of Hispanic immigrants coming into Korea every year and Korea was destined to become majority Hispanic by around 2040, and Koreans said anything critical about this trend, then those Koreans should be considered paranoid, crazy, unreasonable, dangerous, etc.
Well said, mkaplan.
You’ve not yet learned not to interrupt the gloating of our 21st century colonizers.
dogbertt,
Gloating is precisely the correct word for this.
Hi mkaplan,
Apparently you are new here. If you were more familiar with my comments here, you’d know that I’m rarely, if at all, racial. When I mean “declining demographics” I mean a population that shares your point of view, not your skin color. You have to admit there are many Caucasians who disagree with the virulent anti-immigration viewpoint.
As far as Asian Americans are concerned. We are a tiny minority and we always will be a tiny minority. Your kind has little to fear from us. However, because we generally have more education and income per capita, it doesn’t mean we’ll be an unimportant minority.
dogbertt, I’m disappointed. You should have known better.
you are new here
Hey, that’s my line!
Too late, I’ve ™ “you are new here” phrase.
Pretty soon I’ll ® “eh.”..
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