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North Korea has bought Swiss Firearms
North Korea in the first half of 2012, imported from Switzerland firearms totaling 170,000 dollars, the "Yonhap" referring to the South Korean trade state agency KOTRA. North Korea acquired rifles, pistols and air rifles for a total of one hundred thousand dollars, and various spare parts for weapons for 70 thousand dollars.
According to KOTRA, North Korea imported firearms in Switzerland since 2009. Presumably, the resumption of military-technical cooperation related to the fact that the DPRK leader Kim Jong-un in his youth he lived in Switzerland. Register of Conventional Arms UN concerning the delivery of weapons to the DPRK Swiss is not contained.
According to the Stockholm International Peace Research Institute (SIPRI), in the last ten years, the supply of arms to North Korea was engaged only in Russia. In particular, in the years 2001-2011 the DPRK received 20 armored vehicles and 60 missiles. Types of vehicles and ammunition in the SIPRI database is not specified.
It should be noted that if the supply of small arms in North Korea and have been implemented, it is not from Switzerland. The fact that Swiss law prohibits the export of military goods to countries involved in armed conflict. Although North Korea directly with any state of open war now does not lead, in November 2010, the country's troops shelled a South Korean island of Yeonpyeong.
Manufacturing various small arms in Switzerland in the company Brugger & Thomet (military weapons), Hammerli (sporting airguns), Morini (sporting air pistols), RUAG (military weapons), SIG Sauer (military weapons) and Swiss Arms (military weapons), and actively engaged in export sales last three firms.
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