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Oct 31, 2006

Border News - China & North Korea - Business as usual

Despite UN sanctions, everything from instant noodles to industrial machinery is flowing without controls into the rogue state

DANDONG,CHINA -The Globe and Mail (Canada), by GEOFFREY YORK -31 Oct 2006: -- Mr. Li, a veteran 60-year-old Chinese businessman, sells $2-million to $3-million in goods to North Korea every year. And, despite sanctions that the White House describes as a tough new measure, he is confident he can keep selling the same amount of goods to the newly nuclear state next year... Here on the North Korean border, the cross-border trade is still flourishing. Dozens of trucks and trains continue to rumble across the Friendship Bridge from China into North Korea every day... “There are just as many trucks as there were before the sanctions,” Mr. Li says...

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