Panamanian authorities caught a North Korean ship and uncovered the illicit cargo last week—hidden in a shipment of brown sugar. When the Panamanian investigators boarded the ship to conduct a search. The North Korean crew resisted roughly, including an attempt by the captain to commit suicide. And On that ship they found missile parts and some sophiscated weapons. Of Course, the Cuban foreign ministry claimed the obsolete, Soviet-made weapons, which included two fighter jets and the parts for anti-aircraft missiles, were being sent to Pyongyang for repair. But we can easily guess that there is a serious violation and a kind of conspiricy.
United Nations sanctions prohibit the sales of arms to North Korea. Whether it violates UN's resoultions or not. There is some more important point in this uncovering. It’s not 1962 anymore, and the players are not Kennedy and Khrushchev, but for some reason a North Korean ship left Cuba recently with sophisticated missile parts on board. It doesn’t seem too likely that Cuba is providing North Korea with missile parts, so it’s not entirely clear what kind of transaction was going on. However, we can smells a very suspicious scant.
Now, if North Korea is actually selling missiles to Cuba, which remains communist and hostile to the U.S., and also remains a mere 90 miles from the United States shores - that is a very big problem. We simply cannot have a hostile nation pointing missiles at USA from such close range. Kennedy understood this in 1962, which is why he ordered a Naval blockade of Cuba and forced a standoff with the Soviet Union that ultimately forced Nikita Khrushchev to back down and get Soviet missiles off the island.
Today, Cuba is no longer a Soviet client state because there is no longer a Soviet Union. Apparently the Castro brothers haven’t given up the ghost on the communism thing, which is why they’re still maintaining friendships with the likes of Kim Jong Un. But they no longer have Moscow to protect them if they get out of hand. Vladimir Putin may not be their friend. Maybe Fidel and Raul realize no one is there to save them anymore and they figure they need to arm themselves against a potential U.S. invasion. If so, it's very natural that they seeks an allied nation like North Korea, which has been threatening USA by Nuke, to provide some WMD weapons including long-lange missiles. Thereis another evidence showing that there is under-connection between North Korea and Cuba.
Another North Korean ship stopped in Cuba last year after taking a sea route similar to that of the North Korean cargo ship caught carrying weapons from Cuba in Panama earlier this week. Last year's port call in by the O Un Chong Nyon Ho hints at a more extensive arms connection between the two Stalinist countries. The Chongchongang rumbled by Panamanian authorities this week made the same port calls. What cargo the O Un Chong Nyon Ho carried last year is not known, but it is likely that it also carried weapons parts concealed in a shipment of sugar.
Additionally Gen. Kim Kyok Sik, Chief of the Korean People’s Army visited Cuba three weeks ago and met with Cuban President Raúl Castro in Havana. And they made a tour of military bases.
Actually we do not know the truth. But we can feel there is very strange and dangerous moves around us. If Cuba really is acquiring missiles from North Korea, the U.S. has to take action to stop the Cubans from acquiring the capability to launch one at us. We don't want to have the terrible experience of the second Cuban Missile Crisis again.
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