North Korean leader Kim Jong Un provides guidance on a nuclear weapons program in this undated photo released by North Korea's Korean Central News Agency on Sept. 3. © KCNA/Reuters
Alan L. Gropman, National Interest: New Nuclear Threat: Terrorists Could Profit from North Korea's Technology
Pyongyang would not hesitate to sell nuclear technology to build its military and keep Kim Jong-un in luxury.
North Korea almost certainly will not attack the United States or its armed forces or its distant territories with conventional or nuclear weapons. The costs to Kim Jong-un and his country would be monstrous. Kim’s hyperbolic rhetoric is much more a message to the North Korean people than to Americans, and his hyperbolic language is like his father’s and grandfather’s, and means little. What is highly likely, however, is Kim selling nuclear technology to truly dangerous adversaries of the United States—some of which the United States will be less likely to deter.
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WNU Editor: This is an interesting article because I have used this anti-nuclear proliferation argument with my Chinese and Russian friends .... that they should be just as concerned about a nuclear terror attack on Moscow or Beijing as the U.S. .... if not more so because of their history in waging war on Islamic militants. The current media focus is on concerns that North Korea may sell nuclear tech to terrorists who would then attack the U.S. .... and I can understand why they are focused like that ..... but I say that Russia and China are just as inviting as targets, and they are just as vulnerable.
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I saw no checkpoints in modern China. I did see a van full of 'officers' with assault rifles. One had a rifle with a very heavy barrel. The walls were too thick. Silencer? (It reminds me of a pistol with thick walled barrel used for match competition.) I don't know, but I knew I did not want to mess with them.
It is just a matter of time.
While Iran and China are very good at monitoring web traffic, if terrorists use old fashioned methods, they can be surprised. I'm not sure how good China's humint is versus radicals.
If Hawala and other networks work, what can China, the U.S. or Russia do?
www.investopedia.com/terms/h/hawala.asp
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
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