Shipments Of North Korean Missiles Intercepted Myanmar: Report
The Navy stopped a shipment of North Korean missile technology carrying Myanmar and forced the ship to return home, according to a report in The New York Times.
After several days of diplomatic pressure means, the U.S. has forced Pyongyang to resemble the ship M / V Bright, two weeks ago.
U.S. officials told the Times they used naval power and diplomatic pressure to prevent North Korea sharing technology with potentially dangerous rogue nations Myanmar and enforce UN sanctions against the North.
Myanmar, also known as Burma, is a nation in Southeast Asia is dominated by an authoritarian government with little regard for international standards.
A similar shipping suspected of carrying missile parts to succeed, North Korea did last year to Myanmar before the United States had time to intervene.
There is still fear in Burma analysts that North Korea is a trading missile technology and equipment for the autocratic government.
"Military-run Myanmar to increase the objectives of weapons, including new revelations about the regime alone for the production of long-range missiles Scud-type to help North Korea threatens to destabilize the region and make the country south-east Asian a new global hotspot of nuclear non-proliferation, "Myanmar expert and author Bertil Lintner wrote in Asia Times Online in March.
U.S. Secret cables released by Wikileaks in December also indicated that Myanmar used to help North Korea build a nuclear program.
Cables announced that the witnesses had seen the workers of North Korea to help Myanmar to build an underground bunker in a remote part of any anti-missile and nuclear body, reported the BBC.
"The move underlines concerns that the Burmese regime may be trying to build a nuclear weapon, despite denials," he said.
Myanmar has refused to buy missiles or components from North Korea.
There were also reports of North Korean trade in missile technology with Iran.
A resolution of the Security Council UN banning the export of North Korean weapons and allows Member States to inspect North Korean cargo, The Associated Press.
