Deadly chemicals shipped to N Korea

[dArKeR]

More than 100 tonnes of a toxic chemical that can be used to make weapons of mass destruction were exported to North Korea by a South Korean businessman via China, the government said yesterday.

South Korea's Ministry of Commerce said the businessman exported 107 tonnes of sodium cyanide between June and September last year to an importer in Dandong, China, on the border with North Korea, without government approval.

The unidentified Chinese company re-exported the shipment to a North Korean trading firm, the ministry said in a statement.

http://www.taipeitimes.com/News/world/archives/2004/09/25/2003204278

[daleo]

1. North Korea can blow up whole mountains with nothing but TNT

At least that was the last explanation I heard about the mushroom cloud. So, a little sodium cyanide hardly seems like a big deal.