policy. south korea news agency is reporting they were conducting joint military exercises to infiltrate with weapons of mass instruction. an agent arrested in australia? the first in its kind a 59-year-old arrested-year-old arrested saturday for allegedly trying to sell north korean missile parts and other technology abroad attempting to sell weapons of mass instruction on behalf of north korea. to be in contact with high-ranking officials but despite sanctions they are just selling weapons but also counterfeit money. we should not be surprised.
that have killed more than thirty people in left several others missing the slow moving storm passed over the eastern philippines on saturday officials report heavy damage to power lines roads and bridges. police in australia have arrested a man for allegedly acting as an economic agent for north korea he s accused of attempting to broker sales of missile technology in coal to third parties in indonesia and vietnam with a naturalized australian citizen of korean descent is the first person to be charged under the country s weapons of mass destruction act the police have called it a case like nothing ever seen on a stray in soil sydney resident chan hand choice stands accused of working as an economic an agent for north korea he allegedly used encrypted messages to try and broker sales of illegal exports including missile parts and technology in an effort to raise money for pyongyang astray and prime minister malcolm turnbull delivered
a man for allegedly acting as an economic agent for north korea he s accused of attempting to broker sales of missile technology and coal to third parties in indonesia and vietnam a naturalized australian citizen of korean descent is the first person to be charged under the country s weapons of mass destruction act. the police have called it a case like nothing ever seen on a stray in soil sydney resident chanhassen choice stands accused of working as an economic an agent for north korea he allegedly used encrypted messages to try and broker sales of illegal exports including missile parts and technology in an effort to raise money for pyongyang astray and prime minister malcolm turnbull delivered a stern warning to anyone thinking of assisting north korea. north korea is a dangerous reckless criminal regime threatening the pace of the region it is vitally important that all nations work relate more slowly to enforce those
resolution. eric: will it? bryan llenas live with the very latest here in new york. reporter: hi, everything. we now hi, eric. north korea has a tendency to launch rocket tests and military drills, so the world is on extra alert this weekend as today marks the sixth anniversary of death of their former leader, kim jung-il. now, this as a 59-year-old australian man was arrested saturday for allegedly trying to sell north korean missile parts and other military technology abroad. authorities say the man was attempting to sell weapons of mass destruction, working as a, quote, economic agent on behalf of north korea. police say choi had been in contact with high ranking north korean officials, the arrest underscores the reality that while the united nations has enacted the toughest economic sanctions yet against north korea, the regime continues to find ways to make money selling not just weapons on black market, but also counterfeit
fabricated saying they categorically reject it, unfounded and irresponsible provocative and destructive. what do you make of this? reporter: you see where the u.n. comes down. an initial report. to what extent they agree with the assessment by u.s. intelligence officials. and ali, this afternoon, let me go back a step to yesterday. there were substance there. right? i don t want to say all optics. definitely substance, but yesterday they brought a handful of reporters, a small group of reporter, out to the pentagon to observe all of this. i was participating in that and able to ask intelligence officials, to ask a lot of defense types just what the evidence was, they took us through a lot of technical details. we would look at say, veins of the engine. tail fins. essentially what they did is took publicly available pictures of iranian mills, married it up with two missile parts, reconstructed missile, they say were fired into saudi arabia,