Chinese munitions in Iraq seized from insurgents have serial numbers dating to the 1980’s. These were leftovers provided during the Iran Iraq war. Similarly, Chinese munitions in Afghanistan are of similar vintage or at the very latest the mid 90’s, being were smuggled into Afghanistan via Pakistan during the Soviet occupation. The HN-5 surface to air missiles and the ability to manufacture them were sold to Iran in the early 90’s.

The only new weapons provided to Iraq in the post-war phase was in 2005. When China supplied the new Iraqi National Army with new assault rifles, ammunition, and body armor.

Whether Iran wants to smuggle in domestically produced variants of Chinese weapons to Iraq or Afghanistan is their own perogative.

For that many member of the Chongyron are potentially in danger of being charged as tax evasion
by Japanese authority if there is enough evidence.Usually it is very difficult to obtain such and charge pachinko owners(see Itami Juzo’s “Marusa No Onna”aka”A Taxing Woman” series)unless you get the banking documents of the pachinko parlor from someone inside.And Chongyron could give that crucial papers to the authorities by sending it anonimously.That too has become the tool of the reign of fear under Chongyron.They have done it occasionary to punish their members for not loyal to the directoral board or perhaps too close to J-authority(like talking to Japanese security agent about inside business of Chongyron or recent visit to North Korea.)So all the members are under potential threat of being black mailed
by the very organization they support financially.

Bingobango: The majority of the Chongryun members used to be from South Korea. Now most of the members are North Korean zainichi who have their relatives in NK and therefore cannot dissociate themselves from the Chongryun.

I may well be wrong about this after all; I know it’s common for Chongryun members & chousen to be refered to as “North Korean citizens,” and I don’t think there’s anything misleading in refering to zainichi of North Korean ancestry, or even those who strongly identify with the North as “defacto North Korean citizens,” but I think this is often just a lazy unofficial blanket term for chousen citizenship. I’m still pretty sure that many if not most Chongryun members have southern ancestry, but have nevertheless joined Chongryun for one reason or another.
I’ll concede that with the tremendous decline in Chongryun membership over the past 5 years or so, it might be that most remaining members do have strong personal ties to the North. But I think this isn’t the main reason the government & media generally prefer to call them “North Koreans.”

Maybe the Chinese wouldn’t mind. They’re already playing games with maps on the Internet. And as the example with Tibet shows, resistance doesn’t bother them a whole lot.

I’m telling VANK! Just wait till they get here!

Somehow, I doubt this would be a very popular option for anyone involved…

You sure have the talent to write! I love this part!

I notice that many ex-prosecutors in Japan seem to be corrupt with affiliation with the mob and the like and so are big lawyers who are heavily slanted to the left- which maybe makes them dangerously close to rouge organizations.

NK is backed into a corner, and you know how the Japanese say they were always forced into WWII…

All in all, it’s a pretty hopeless situation. How could SK possibly absorb NK without going bankrupt itself? Regime change would seem to be impossible without triggering some sort of catastrophe.

And the NK military seems to be even crazier than Little Elvis, so we can’t even hope for him to die.