MIAMI (AP) — A Korean-American who served prison time for attempting to broker the sale of deadly nerve gas bombs to Iran was indicted Wednesday on new charges of trying to help South Korea obtain advanced Russian rocket hardware and technology.
Investigators also found thousands of e-mails allegedly sent by Juwhan Yun, a 68-year-old naturalized U.S. citizen from Short Hills, N.J., involving other deals for sophisticated radar and air defense systems, short-wave infrared cameras, laser-guided bomb components and missile launch devices.
Yun is quoted in one e-mail as boasting that he has been “the largest one-stop supplier” of sensitive military and similar equipment for South Korea for the past 30 years.
Yun was arrested April 15 at the Fort Lauderdale airport after meeting with a former arms trafficker working as an informant for U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement and Defense Department investigators. The cooperating arms trafficker, who is not named in court documents, had previously worked with Yun on deals involving Russian SU-27 fighter planes and surface-to-air missiles.
Yun, who is being held without bail, faces up to 60 years in prison and $6 million in fines if convicted of all six charges, which involve attempting to broker or export prohibited defense or missile-related items and failing to register with the U.S. government as a broker. Yun’s court-appointed attorney did not immediately return a telephone call Wednesday seeking comment, nor did officials the South Korean embassy in Washington.
This is the same guy in 1989, being led out of the courthouse after being charged with attempting to export nerve gas...he hasn't changed his views.
The Justice Department and U.S. attorney’s office in Miami also declined immediate comment.
In 1989, Yun was charged with attempting to supply Iran with 500 quarter-ton bombs of deadly sarin nerve gas. He was eventually convicted of conspiracy and sentenced to 30 months. He was released in March 1991. None of the gas was ever acquired by Yun or shipped to Iran. (Read more.)
B.S. Report–It’s impossible to tell how many U.S. citizens share the same sentiment as this guy. No doubt, we have plenty of foreign nationals living here that hate this country. But this guy is a naturalized citizen who wants to see us destroyed.
We live in a very dangerous world…and within this environment, President Obama has deemed this the necessary time to scale back on our national security defenses.
There is so much waste (mostly waste) with our government’s spending policies that there is literally millions of areas that spending could be cut before putting our nation’s security at risk.
But none of this matters to President Obama because he’s more concerned with centralizing as much power in Washington as he can–and if we happen to be attacked again, better yet, because he’ll be able to grab even more power if an attack occurs.
THE B.S. REPORT 