FORD
08-04-2004, 02:06 PM
Tuesday, August 03, 2004
Rev. Moon's submarines, sold to Kim Jong-Il, empower a nuke threat to the West Coast
Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about him in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?
Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.
Robert Parry, the ace reporter who broke the Iran-Contra story, obtained these files through the Freedom of Information Act while writing his 2000 story, "Rev. Moon, North Korea and the Bushes," about Moon's gifts to the Communist regime. Read on, if you dare. (Glossary: KN = North Korea)
http://www.gorenfeld.net/images/submarine_doc_1.jpg
http://www.gorenfeld.net/images/sub_doc_02.jpg
So "it is speculated" that the Washington Times will be used by the North Koreans? Huh -- even the U.S. intelligence community doesn't buy editor Wes Pruden's claims that his paper is editorially independent. And a Times article, on May 24, 1994, downplayed the significance of the sale. Without disclosing that it was the newspaper owner's parent company that gave a Secret Santa gift of missile tech to the Kim empire, the Times reported that the subs were useless (as quoted here):
A South Korean foreign ministry official states that the Russian submarines purchased by North Korea have had their weapon systems removed and are so obsolete that they are unusable for offensive purposes. The official indicates that the submarines were purchased for scrap and that of the 12 submarines contracted for, only one has been delivered.
link (http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html)
Rev. Moon's submarines, sold to Kim Jong-Il, empower a nuke threat to the West Coast
Jane's Defense Weekly is reporting this week that Kim Jong-Il, unstable North Korean dictator (I wrote about him in the British Guardian) may be able to target California with sea-launched missiles. His know-how, the Reuters story relates, comes from 12 ex-Soviet submarines that fell into his hands. They came with their original launch tubes and stabilizing gear intact. Where does Kim get those wonderful toys?
Funny story: According to U.S. Defense Intelligence Agency documents (which you can browse here), they were furnished by Reverend Moon.
Robert Parry, the ace reporter who broke the Iran-Contra story, obtained these files through the Freedom of Information Act while writing his 2000 story, "Rev. Moon, North Korea and the Bushes," about Moon's gifts to the Communist regime. Read on, if you dare. (Glossary: KN = North Korea)
http://www.gorenfeld.net/images/submarine_doc_1.jpg
http://www.gorenfeld.net/images/sub_doc_02.jpg
So "it is speculated" that the Washington Times will be used by the North Koreans? Huh -- even the U.S. intelligence community doesn't buy editor Wes Pruden's claims that his paper is editorially independent. And a Times article, on May 24, 1994, downplayed the significance of the sale. Without disclosing that it was the newspaper owner's parent company that gave a Secret Santa gift of missile tech to the Kim empire, the Times reported that the subs were useless (as quoted here):
A South Korean foreign ministry official states that the Russian submarines purchased by North Korea have had their weapon systems removed and are so obsolete that they are unusable for offensive purposes. The official indicates that the submarines were purchased for scrap and that of the 12 submarines contracted for, only one has been delivered.
link (http://www.gorenfeld.net/blog/2004/08/rev-moons-submarines-sold-to-kim-jong.html)