LNR: Cuba must not support North Korea

While the majority of
countries worldwide and the UN Security Council, including China and Russia, denounce
the challenging conduct of North Korea’s regime because of the launching of
long-range rockets and its nuclear tests, the Castro dictatorship insists in
its support of a regime whose aggressive conduct puts the world at risk of a
war which could have unpredictable consequences. Even the Mexican government
has just expelled the North Korean ambassador in Mexico as a reply to North
Korea’s militarist and threatening policy.

The consequences of Castrismo’s
reiterated support of a criminal regime repudiated by the world, as usual,
are paid by the Cuban people.

The complicity between the
Castro and the North Korean dictatorships reached a world scandal level when
Panama intercepted in July 2013 the North Korean ship Chong Chon Gang with
sumuggled weapons the Cuban government surreptitiously tried to send them through the
Panama Canal, as a sugar load destined for North Korea. Besides having violated
the Panamanian sovereignty, this shipment was a violation, by Havana, of the
arms embargo against the Asian country.

According to a UN experts
report: “Both the shipment itself and the transaction between Cuba and the
People’s Republic of Korea were in violation of the sanctions” (imposed until
then by the UN against North Korea). About the poor Castrista excuse that the
weapons were obsolete, the UN’s report concluded that: “most of the weapons
were in good shape and documents found along with them showed the equipment
function according to specifications and had been calibrated shortly before
packaging.”

The weapons, which were
concealed under a sugar load, included six vehicle linked to land-air missile
systems and 25 containers loaded with spare parts for two Mig-21 fighters.
Also, 15 engines for that type of aircraft, components for missile systems,
ammunition and other military equipment were found. According to the UN’s
report it is the largest number of banned weapons banned by international
sanctions destined for North Korea or coming from that country since the
embargo was imposed. Besides, experts point out that there is proof of
participation by the North Korean embassy in Havana in the process of the
shipment, and they say that Cuba has refused to reveal the identity of the
institutions involved in the operation.