{"id":76613,"date":"2017-12-17T11:00:40","date_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:00:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76613"},"modified":"2017-12-17T11:15:49","modified_gmt":"2017-12-17T16:15:49","slug":"australia-arrests-broker-for-nork-nukes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=76613","title":{"rendered":"Australia arrests broker for Nork Nukes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/world\/2017\/12\/16\/australian-man-accused-brokering-north-korea-missile-sales.html\">Fox News<\/a>, an Australian citizen of South Korean birth was arrested by Australian authorities for trying to sell North Korean missile technology and expertise as well as coal on behalf of the hermit kingdom.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The suspect has been identified as a 59-year-old naturalized Australian citizen who was born in South Korea. He was arrested Saturday and charged over two transactions that were unsuccessful.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;But we estimate that if these trades were successful, we&#8217;re talking tens of millions of dollars,&#8221; Gaughan said. <\/p>\n<p>Police allege the man was generating tens of millions of dollars for the Pyongyang regime by arranging the sale of missiles, components and expertise from North Korea to other international entities, and was trying to arrange the transfer of coal from the country to Indonesia and Vietnam.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;This man was acting as a loyal agent for North Korea who believed he was acting to serve some higher patriotic purpose,&#8221; Gaughan said. &#8220;I think at the end of the day he would sell whatever he could to make money back for the North Korean government.&#8221; <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/www.news.com.au\/world\/asia\/afp-charge-sydney-man-over-north-korea-weapons-brokering\/news-story\/031fca7d36e381410723ba1f9c5c83e6\">News.com.au<\/a>;<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Choi Han Chan, the first person to be charged under the Weapons of Mass Destruction Act, has been formally refused bail by Parramatta Bail Court.<\/p>\n<p>The 59-year-old man did not appear before Magistrate Carl Milovanovic, and is scheduled to appear in Central Local Court next week.<\/p>\n<p>He faces six charges relating to provision of services for weapons of mass destruction in North Korea after being arrested at his Eastwood home on Saturday night.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>It doesn&#8217;t look as if any of his deals came to fruition.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to Fox News, an Australian citizen of South Korean birth was arrested by Australian authorities for trying to sell North Korean missile technology and expertise as well as coal on behalf of the hermit kingdom. The suspect has been identified as a 59-year-old naturalized Australian citizen who was born in South Korea. He was [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":56833,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[214],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-76613","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-north-korea"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/Kim-Jong-Un.jpg?fit=500%2C600&ssl=1","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p4ozh1-jVH","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76613","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=76613"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/76613\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/56833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=76613"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=76613"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=76613"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}