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North Korea’s Hall of Mirrors: Fake Global Network of Shell Companies Key to Illicit Arms Exports

May 31, 2013 by wpfixit

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 […]

Filed Under: Blog Nate Thayer, Middle East, Nate Thayer, Nate Thayer blog, NK News, North Korea, North Korea crime, North Korea economy, North Korea sanctions, North Korean covert operations, North Korean Missiles, organized crime, Smuggling Tagged With: democratic peoples republic of korea, Nate Thayer, NK News, North Korea, North Korea Covert Operations, North Korea crime, North Korea sanctions Kim Jong-un, organized crime

Somalia Pirates Hijack North Korean Ship, Then Decide it Isn't Worth it and Turn Themselves In

December 21, 2012 by wpfixit

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 […]

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Obama: Support Cambodia Against the Last Murderous Thug in South East Asia

November 18, 2012 by wpfixit

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 […]

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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

November 14, 2012 by wpfixit

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cambodia, Corruption, Human Rights, Hun Sen, Journalism, Nate Thayer, organized crime, U.S. Asian Policy

THE CAMBODIAN CONUNDRUM

March 15, 2002 by wpfixit

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 […]

Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Cambodia, Corruption, Journalism, Nate Thayer, organized crime

Tycoon Says He Financed Hun Sen Coup

July 24, 1997 by wpfixit

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 […]

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Drug Suspects Bankroll Cambodian Coup Leader

July 22, 1997 by wpfixit

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 […]

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Cambodia: Asia’s New Narco-State? Medellin on the Mekong

November 23, 1995 by wpfixit

 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 […]

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Thai Border: A Wild West of Anarchy

November 20, 1992 by wpfixit

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 […]

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