http://www.shaneabrahams.com/2009/01/is-north-korea-helping-burma-build-a-secret-underground-weapon/
Burma’s military is reportedly building a network of underground tunnels between Naypyidaw, the country’s administrative capital and the town of Pin Laung in Shan State. According to the Democratic Voice of Burma, local residents speculate the tunnels are part of a secret weapons project, while workers report the project is being constructed with the assistance of North Korean scientists.
Work on the site has been going on for about three months, with three teams of workers from different parts of Burma. One worker said they were digging a very large tunnel with four main entrances to it. Inside the tunnel there were a lot of different sectors with maze-like paths scattered all around and also some parking lots.
He also reported often seeing North Koreans there, about every five days.
Visitors to the site from Naypyidaw have to pass through five military checkpoints, while troops and anti-aircraft batteries have been deployed on surrounding hilltops.
However, workers, who are forced to live on the site, complain they have not been paid for two months. DVB quotes one worker as saying, “They promised us 30,000 kyat a month for our labour
but they haven’t paid us since November last year and they also kept our ID cards so we can’t leave the site.”
Several years ago, I met a Burmese exile, who claimed the military were trying to acquire nuclear weapon technology from the Russians and that work had begun on a secret site inside Burma.
The junta moved the country’s capital from Rangoon to remote Naypyidaw in 2005. And many analysts speculate the move was due to the junta’s paranoia over a possible attack by the US.
Given President George W. Bush’s willingness to invade Iraq based on flimsier evidence than this, one wonders how the incoming Obama administration will view this latest news.
Where there's political will, there is a way
政治的な意思がある一方、方法がある
စစ္မွန္တဲ့ခိုင္မာတဲ့နိုင္ငံေရးခံယူခ်က္ရိွရင္ႀကိဳးစားမႈရိွရင္ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျဖ
ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
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စစ္မွန္တဲ့ခိုင္မာတဲ့နိုင္ငံေရးခံယူခ်က္ရိွရင္ႀကိဳးစားမႈရိွရင္ နိုင္ငံေရးအေျဖ
ထြက္ရပ္လမ္းဟာေသခ်ာေပါက္ရိွတယ္
Burmese Translation-Phone Hlaing-fwubc
Wednesday, January 21, 2009
Is North Korea helping Burma build a secret underground weapon?
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