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Monday, 2 December 2024

Missing Parts



North Korean teams hunt for advanced military parts abroad

The components in question are crucial for North Korea to enhance its military capabilities but exceed its current technical manufacturing abilities

North Korea dispatched technical teams to Dandong, China and major Russian cities in early November to procure advanced military components like electronic parts and miniature semiconductors that are banned under international sanctions. The roughly ten-person teams from North Korea’s Academy of National Defense Science aim to acquire technology beyond North Korea’s domestic production capabilities.



Hmm, any outside observer is bound to wonder about the likelihood of Chinese suppliers selling genuine parts to those North Korean teams.

Should any team return to North Korea with fake parts, they aren't going back to China to complain, not after Kim Jong Un has been really cross with them.

4 comments:

Doonhamer said...

Any North Korean team which arranges to have dodgy components shipped home would be safer staying in China, just to do QA remedial work - know what I mean? Kim is very inventive when it comes to methods pour ecourager les autres.

James Higham said...

One can only wait and see. 🍿🍿🍿

Sam Vega said...

The components in question are crucial for North Korea to enhance its military capabilities but exceed its current technical manufacturing abilities

"And could you make it so it just sort of clips onto the stuff we've already got...?"

A K Haart said...

Doonhamer - I bet all member of the team have family members back home as an incentive not to screw up. It seems to be something they do.

James - although we'll probably never hear how successful it was.

Sam - ha ha, I wondered about that, although I suppose their gear is old Chinese or Russian gear anyway.