Keeping an Eye on Burma
Monday - Jul 20, 2009 - 4:55 PMIf you think that trading raw uranium for weapons seems like a recipe for disaster, watch closely what has been happening in Burma. The United States has been pretty silent about the tragedies that have been happening there. This Asian country, formerly knows as Myanmar, is famous for using child soldiers, hunting down ethnic minorities, sex and narcotics trafficking and its paranoid leader. Recently it became even more famous for its tightening relationship with North Korea. It is that country that Burma is accused of exporting raw uranium to. And that's just the stuff that N. Korean badly wants and can't get easily on the open market. So the relationship is growing stronger and with both countries having open access to the ocean, it gives them a relatively easy way to trade.
