North Korea’s Global Hall of Mirrors: Shadowy front companies crucial to banned Pyongyang arms exports Investigation reveals complex web of false shell corporations spanning the world enabling DPRK arms exports By Nate Thayer NK News May 30, 2013 (See entire story at NK News http://www.nknews.org/2013/05/the-front-companies-facilitating-north-korean-arms-exports/ ) Four years after an aircraft was seized in Bangkok with a cargo […]
Somalia Pirates Hijack North Korean Ship, Then Decide it Isn't Worth it and Turn Themselves In
Somalia Pirates Hijack Norean Ship, Then Decide it Isn’t Worth it and Turn Themselves In December 20, 2012 By Nate Thayer Somalia pirates hijacked a North Korean ship on Tuesday only to have second thoughts after the hijackers decided it wasn’t worth the hassle or effort and have turned around and now headed back to […]
Obama: Support Cambodia Against the Last Murderous Thug in South East Asia
Obama Must Side With the Rights and Dignity of Cambodians, Not Strengthen the Last Thug Left Standing in Power in South East Asia. If Not Cambodia, where? If not now when? If the U.S. won’t support those fighting for democratic freedoms in Cambodia, a country no longer with significant political, economic, military, or strategic value […]
Hun Sen and his cabal are murderous, corrupt thugs: No One Disputes that. Obama Should Take a Stand for the Human and Political Rights of Cambodians
Hun Sen and his cabal are murderous, corrupt thugs: No One Disputes that. Obama Should Take a Stand for the Human and Political Rights of Cambodians On the eve of the first visit ever by a U.S. president to Cambodia, this article on the American approach to the current Cambodian government is seamlessly applicable. Just […]
THE CAMBODIAN CONUNDRUM
THE CAMBODIAN CONUNDRUM Cambodia represents a case study of what can happen when U.S. drug policy and U.S. foreign policy interests collide FOREIGN SERVICE JOURNAL March 2002 By Nate Thayer (This article details the way the U.S. war on drugs is actually played out in the real world, the hypocrisy between the rhetoric to hunt […]
Tycoon Says He Financed Hun Sen Coup
Tycoon Says He Financed Hun Sen Coup; $1 Million Underwrote Cambodian Takeover The Washington Post July 24, 1997 By Nate Thayer A powerful Cambodian businessman and suspected drug kingpin says he gave more than $1 million in cash and gold to co-prime minister Hun Sen and his allies to fund a coup that ousted rival […]
Drug Suspects Bankroll Cambodian Coup Leader
Drug Suspects Bankroll Cambodian Coup Leader; Narcotics Traffic Booms as Loans, Gifts Flow Washington Post July 22, 1997 By Nate Thayer When a prominent businessman and senior adviser to Cambodian co-prime minister Hun Sen was implicated in an attempt to smuggle seven tons of marijuana out of the country recently, a top official in the […]
Cambodia: Asia’s New Narco-State? Medellin on the Mekong
Cambodia: Asia’s New Narco-State? Medellin on the Mekong Far Eastern Economic Review COVER STORY (Three story package below) 23 Nov 1995 By Nate Thayer Has Cambodia become a mafia state? Nate Thayer reports that in the two years since UN-run elections, criminal syndicates protected by high-ranking have turned the country into a major centre for […]
Thai Border: A Wild West of Anarchy
Thai Border: A Wild West of Anarchy By Nate Thayer Phnom Penh Post Friday, 20 November 1992 BANGKOK, Thailand-Thai officials, black market traders, and U.N. workers who have operated on the Thai-Cambodian border for years say U.N. efforts to impose economic sanctions against the Khmer Rouge will be virtually impossible to enforce. The U.N. hopes […]
