 merrie says: The Metropolitan Police Department discovered a Tokyo-based machinery manufacturer had illegally exported a jet mill, which can be used to grind solid missile fuel, to Iran. The MPD also found that the manufacturer exported a jet mill to North Korea using the Man Gyong Bong-92. It is suspected that North Korea obtained the jet mill to facilitate the use of solid fuel, which loads into a tank faster than liquid fuel when a missile is being prepared for launching. In October 2003, the Fukuoka prefectural police arrested the president of an auto sales company that illegally exported a trailer bed, which can be used as a mobile missile launchpad. In January 2004, the Kanagawa prefectural police arrested a president of a company in Niigata Prefecture that exported to North Korea a frequency inverter, which can be used in nuclear weapons development. In April 2002, the Economy, Trade and Industry Ministry introduced wide-ranging controls over high-tech instruments that can be used to develop weapons of mass destruction. The ministry also added more than 70 North Korean companies, including Korea Mining and Development Corp. which is operated under the Korean Workers' Party's Second Economic Committee responsible for arms supplies, and Korea Pugan Trading Corp., to its list of firms suspected of involvement in WMD development, to tighten control over the export of regulated items to these companies. In August 2007, local authorities in Taiwan arrested the president of a trading company suspected of exporting Japanese computers for indu... |
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