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| Japan Police Arrest Three for Illegal Exports to NK | |
| 2009-07-03 | |
| June 30 (Bloomberg) -- Japanese police arrested three men yesterday for allegedly attempting to export a measuring device that could be used for developing long-range ballistic missiles to Myanmar, the Yomiuri newspaper reported. The men, who worked at a trading company, a manufacturing company and an exporter, are alleged to have attempted to send the magnetic measuring device to Myanmar in January for 7 million yen ($73,000), the report said. One of the companies involved had allegedly tried to export the same device around September last year, the report said. Police believe North Korea was attempting to help Myanmar gain missile technologies, the report said. North Korea is suspected of having ordered the device through a Hong Kong-based trading company that it controls, the report said.
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| Posted by:Steve White |