On occasion, NK News receive emails from people who incorrectly believe the site is officially sanctioned by the DPRK, or representative of the Pyongyang regime in some way. Normally this results in hate mail from people who despise Kim Jong Il, but occasionally it articulates in slightly more bizarre ways, with last week being extremely notable in this regard.
On 04/06 NK News received the following correspondence from an engineering firm in Israel that specializes in armored defense hardware:
On 4/6/11 1:14 AM, פרידנזון wrote:
Hello Sir;
Appreciate having your quotation to Anti rockets system against the following treats:
- Qassam rocket (a simple steel artillery rocket)
- 122 mm Grad rockets
- Mortar Bombs
Quantity 10 systems
Please write price & delivery time?
Beast Regards,
Elad
COMPANY DETAILS REMOVED BY NK NEWS
Missile & Rocket defense is an expensive business, and one that the U.S. and Israel have had much difficulty in mastering. So it seems the above email may have either been written in ignorance (North Korea has no such anti-rocket system), or perhaps by an unhappy employee looking to discredit his company (the email – sent to a news website – included full company details, website and telephone contacts, etc).
In an attempt to take the story further and obtain more information, NK News replied with the following:
“Dear Elad,
As you now, we are under sanction at the moment and it is difficult to provide weaponry to foreign country such as Israel. We could supply these through colleagues in Egypt – please advise.
Do Won Chang “
One day later, the engineering firm in question replied, asking for a precise quotation – to which NK News suggested the purchase of artillery instead, given the lack of a DPRK produced anti-rocket system. But from that point on, NK News received no further replies to correspondence – the company in question may well have realized that they were in communication with a non DPRK-sanctioned news website.
While there is always the possibility that the emails in question were sent to discredit the company involved (hence why NK News has not included their details), that the request may well have been authentic raises some serious concerns.
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