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Heal Burma>Heal Burma Notebook
North Korea built Than Shwe'sEscape Tunnel
2009-06-11Missiles and missile and nuclear technology, counterfeiting money andcigarette smuggling, front companiesand restaurants in foreign countries,labor export to the Middle East – North Korea has been very innovativewhen it comes to raising badly neededforeign exchange for the regime inPyongyang. But there is a less knowntrade in service that the North Koreanshave offered to its foreign clients:expertise in tunneling. A fascinatingnew glimpse of this business has now been offered in secret photos fromBurma obtained by this correspondent.The photos, taken between 2003 and2006, show that while the rest of theworld is speculating about theoutcome of long-awaited elections inBurma, the ruling military junta has been busy digging in for the long haul – literally. North Korean technicianshave helped them constructunderground facilities where they cansurvive any threats from their own people as well as the outside world. Itis not known if the tunnels are linkedto Burma’s reported efforts to developnuclear technology – in which the North Koreans allegedly are active aswell.(Click on the image to view largeimage)Go to -page 19
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