Kadafi forces spotted with North Korean Weapons

by yuna on March 29, 2011

The SBS reports wooden crates filled with North Korean rockets were found in Ras Lanuf where the Kadafi troops withdrew from. They think that the weapons were exported from North Korea disguised as “building material”. In the same report, North Korea says that Libya is paying the price for giving up its nuclear weapons program, and China’s 환구시보 states this also..- article in English here.

I cannot find the exact timing link to it yet, but there was a Bremner sketch which is a bit old but says (predicts) exactly the same thing…

PS I cannot find the actual sketch and the link before was to a youtube link of the whole program of “Between Iraq and a hard place” with a bad quality..so I linked it to another one…

{ 7 comments… read them below or add one }

1 gbevers March 29, 2011 at 5:00 am: When I was in the navy in the 1970s, North Korean pilots were flying in Libya, and we had linguists monitoring them.
2 CactusMcHarris March 29, 2011 at 9:40 am: #1,

I missed doing that by a year and a half, more or less, but you’re sure that’s something that should be written here?
3 gbevers March 29, 2011 at 12:09 pm: I’m not sure, Cactus. Surely, that is not classified information, especially since it was more than thirty years ago and has been reported on.
4 CactusMcHarris March 29, 2011 at 12:38 pm: #3,

It was? I knew it wasn’t ‘Top Secret Umbrella’ stuff nowadays but I didn’t know it had been reported on. A guy who flew in those missions and I talk now and then.

I’m curious if you know why the NKAF was chosed to train Libyan pilots in the Fishbed? Because NK would sell its services anywhere? Seems to me the more experienced pilots at that time would have been Russian or Vietnamese.
5 CactusMcHarris March 29, 2011 at 12:44 pm: And for anyone to answer, please….why would it be newsworthy to find NK weapons in almost any despot’s lair? I realize the SBS might have used it as more of an informative (rather than sensational) item, but don’t the generals and Li’l Kim sell to anyone with cash?
6 gbevers March 29, 2011 at 1:45 pm: Cactus (#4),

January 05, 1989
Los Angeles Times — “U.S. Shoots Down 2 Libya Jets; Kadafi Vows to Seek Revenge : F-14s Fired in Self-Defense, Carlucci Says”

Normally, Libyan pilots, who are considered poorly trained and supplemented by Syrian, Soviet and North Korean pilots, do not stray over the ocean and hug the coast if they do, Pentagon sources said.
7 Yu Bum Suk March 29, 2011 at 4:10 pm: Depending on how things go the Norks could either lose a great customer or have a lot of replacement orders coming up.