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REFS September, 2009

SUBJECT: The UAE's Seizure of Arms
delivered from North Korea to Iran

 

 

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The vessel titled ?Song Hoa 2 loaded with ten containers departed from
Nampo port on June ?rst, 2009 for the Dalian port in China, and changed

container at the Dalian port. (The containers were not changed.)

At the Dalian port, this containers were loaded onto the vessel named 
XIN YAN TIANJ owned by the Chinese company CSCL, and then
departed for the Shanghai port for transshipment.

0 At the Shanghai port, the containers were transshipped once agin to the
vessel titled IN AUSTRALIA owned by the Australian company ANL
Container Line, and then departed for the ?nal destination, Bandar Abbas
port in Iran.

The UAB authorities conducted a physical check of the 
AUSTRALIA when the vessel called at Khor AL-Fakkan port in the
UAE on her route to Iran, and discovered ten suspicious containers. So,

the authorities unloaded the containers on July 22 and conducted a
through check.

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The check disclosed that the containers contained anti-tank rockets
(RPG-7) and various types of ammunitions and parts, so the UAE

authorities seized all of the items.

The UAE authorities noti?ed the UN Sanctions Committee of the result of
the container check since North Korea's arms export to Iran is in breach of
the UN resolution 1874. And the Committee sent a letter on August 25 to
Iran and North Korea respectively requesting explanation of the illegal arms

delivery.

In response to the UNSC request, North Korea sent a letter to the President
of the UNSC under the name of the North Korean Ambassador to UN,
stating that it felt no need to answer to such request because it had never
approved the UNSC resolution 1874 from the ?rst place and threatening to

reinforce its nuclear capacity and to further deteriorate the situation.

0 In the meantime, Iran denied its involvement saying it was a conspiracy of

Zionists.

The UAE's seizure of the containers heading to Iran with North
Korea-produced arms is the ?rst of its kind to have been disclosed and
seized since the UNSC adopted the resolution 1874, and clearly
demonstrates that North Korea continues to illegally export its arms in

spite of the UNSC sanctions.

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